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Mussulman

/ˈmʌsəlmən/obsolete

Mussulman is spelled M-U-S-S-U-L-M-A-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Mussulman means “A Muslim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Mussulman is Mussulmans or Mussulmen.

How many letters and syllables are in Mussulman?

Letters9: M-U-S-S-U-L-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is Mussulman?

Mussulman appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 Mussulman?

  • /ˈmʌsəlmən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Mussulman

  • Moosulmaun
  • Musalman
  • Musulman
  • Musselman

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Mussulman mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA Muslim.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Mussulman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense archaic: a Muslim:

LanguageWords
GermanMuselmane
Portuguesemaometano

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 Mussulman come from?

From Italian musulmano, from Ottoman Turkish مسلمان (müsliman), from Classical Persian مُسَلْمَان (musalmān), from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim), from أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama). Etymologically not a compound of man, though the plural Mussulmen shows it was sometimes reinterpreted as such.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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