muscle shirt
"muscle-shirt" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“muscle shirt” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sleeveless shirt tailored to display the muscles of the body.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muscle shirt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “muscle shirt” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for muscle shirt is 12 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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Using “muscle shirt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-U-S-C-L-E- -S-H-I-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.