musician
mu·si·cian/mjuˈzɪʃən/noun
musician is spelled M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N, 3 syllables: mu·si·cian. The wrong spelling people search most is muscician: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 91 of all searches for the word. Musician is a noun meaning “A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical…”. The plural of musician is musicians.
How many letters and syllables are in musician?
| Letters | 8: M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: mu·si·cian |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, muscician, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell musician?
Musician is spelled M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 91 of the searches for musician in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is musician?
Musician appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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).
How do you pronounce musician?
- /mjuˈzɪʃən/
Musician has 3 syllables, split mu·si·cian in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-musician.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of musician
- musicians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does musician mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.
Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Musician in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who performs or writes music:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | musicien, musicienne |
| German | Musiker, Musikerin, Musikant m Musikantin, Tonkünstler, Tonkünstlerin, Musikus |
| Portuguese | músico, música, musicista |
| Spanish | músico, música, musicante, musicastro (despective), saltimbanqui |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does musician come from?
From Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”), equivalent to musike + -ien. By surface analysis, music + -ician.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).