canard musqué
The verdict
“canard musqué” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Une espèce de canard américain, grand, dont sont issues les races domestiques appelées « canard de Barbarie » ; un canard pêcheur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canard musqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.naʁ mus.ke\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canard musqué” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canard musqué is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.naʁ mus.ke\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Une espèce de canard américain, grand, dont sont issues les races domestiques appelées « canard de Barbarie » ; un canard pêcheur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canard musqué in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is canard musqué, spelled C-A-N-A-R-D- -M-U-S-Q-U-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une espèce de canard américain, grand, dont sont issues les races domestiques appelées « canard de Barbarie » ; un canard pêcheur.
This word in other languages
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "canard musqué"?
What does "canard musqué" mean?
How do you pronounce "canard musqué"?
What language does "canard musqué" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “canard musqué”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-R-D- -M-U-S-Q-U-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.naʁ mus.ke\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: