muscle
/ˈmʌs.əl/
The verdict
“muscle” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,553 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,553
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Músculo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muscle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmʌs.əl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “muscle” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
muscle is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,553 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmʌs.əl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Músculo.".
muscle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is muscle, spelled M-U-S-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Músculo.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “muscle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-U-S-C-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.