musta
"musta" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“musta” is uncommon English (frequency #69,270 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,270
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Contraction of must + have.
Corpus desk
Index EN-musta · musta · English
musta · rank #69,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,270
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH muskie
Nearest frequency peer: muskie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “musta”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mujahid
mujahid
30,735 corpus weight
- Mula
Mula
30,734 corpus weight
- multicenter
multicenter
30,733 corpus weight
- muskie
muskie
30,732 corpus weight
- musta
musta
30,731 corpus weight
- Nauvoo
Nauvoo
30,727 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “musta” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “musta” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
musta is uncommon English at frequency #69,270 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contraction of must + have.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for musta, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Written form of a reduction of must have. The correct English form is musta, spelled M-U-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Contraction of must + have.
Etymology
Written form of a reduction of must have.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.