muscle
/ˈmʌs.əl/
The verdict
“muscle” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,553 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,553
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Músculo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-muscle · muscle · Spanish
muscle · rank #65,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,553
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH multados
Nearest frequency peer: multados (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “muscle”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Monserrate
Monserrate
34,454 corpus weight
- multados
multados
34,449 corpus weight
- muscle
muscle
34,448 corpus weight
- mutualidad
mutualidad
34,446 corpus weight
- mutualistas
mutualistas
34,445 corpus weight
- Módena
Módena
34,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “muscle” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “muscle” en español
Rare enough to double-check
muscle is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,553 among 3,868 “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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).