musculus
/ˈmʌ.skjəl.əs/noun
musculus is a noun meaning “A muscle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-U-S-C-U-L-U-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of musculus is musculi.
What does musculus mean?
noun
- 1
A muscle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce musculus?
- UK /ˈmʌ.skjʊl.əs/
- US /ˈmʌ.skjəl.əs/
Musculus has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of musculus
- musculi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is musculus?
Musculus appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with musculus
Sounds like: musculous (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does musculus come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Latin mūsculus (“a little mouse; a muscle”), diminutive of mūs (“a mouse”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).