musick
"musick" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“musick” is uncommon English (frequency #86,544 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,544
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of music.
Corpus desk
Index EN-musick · musick · English
musick · rank #86,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,544
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH muscarinic
Nearest frequency peer: muscarinic (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “musick”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Muji
Muji
13,462 corpus weight
- Mulgrave
Mulgrave
13,461 corpus weight
- multiplexer
multiplexer
13,460 corpus weight
- muscarinic
muscarinic
13,458 corpus weight
- musick
musick
13,457 corpus weight
- Muzaffarnag…
Muzaffarnagar
13,456 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “musick” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “musick” in English
Rare enough to double-check
musick is uncommon English at frequency #86,544 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of music.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for musick, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is musick, spelled M-U-S-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of music.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how musick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Harry whose tuneful and well measur’d Song / First taught our English Musick how to span
Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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