muscle shirt
"muscle-shirt" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“muscle shirt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sleeveless shirt tailored to display the muscles of the body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-muscle-shirt · muscle shirt · English
muscle shirt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muscle shirt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “muscle shirt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
muscle shirt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sleeveless shirt tailored to display the muscles of the body.".
Zero misspellings are on record for muscle shirt in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: So called because they display the muscles; these shirts were stereotypically associated with surfers and bodybuilders. The correct English form is muscle shirt, spelled M-U-S-C-L-E- -S-H-I-R-T.
Definition
- 1A sleeveless shirt tailored to display the muscles of the body.
Etymology
So called because they display the muscles; these shirts were stereotypically associated with surfers and bodybuilders.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.