musa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,410
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
musa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de las nueve ninfas que en la mitología griega patrocinan las artes y las ciencias. Son hijas de Zeus y Mnemosine (la memoria): Calíope (de la poesía épica), Clío (de la historia), Érato (... Pronounced [ˈmusa]. Often confused with muy and must.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmusa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for musa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmusa]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,410 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for musa, with forms such as "mmusa", "msua", and "muas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muy", "must", "muse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is musa, spelled M-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las nueve ninfas que en la mitología griega patrocinan las artes y las ciencias. Son hijas de Zeus y Mnemosine (la memoria): Calíope (de la poesía épica), Clío (de la historia), Érato (de la poesía amorosa), Euterpe (de la música), Melpómene (de la tragedia), Polimnia (de los himnos), Talía (de la comedia), Terpsícore (de la danza) y Urania (de la astronomía).
- 2Por extensión, fuente de inspiración artística o literaria, antropomorfa o no.
- 3Estilo, creatividad o ingenio particular o peculiar de un poeta.
- 4Género literario, generalmente escrito en verso, que emplea el lenguaje por sus cualidades estéticas o evocativas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmusa,msua,muas,mussa,umsa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for musa
Misspelling Variants of "musa"
Frequency rank: #14,410 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: