masculin
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,873
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
masculin is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est de sexe mâle, qui a rapport à ce sexe. Pronounced \mas.ky.lɛ̃\. It ranks #4,873 in French word frequency. Often confused with masculine and masculins.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masculin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mas.ky.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for masculin is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mas.ky.lɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,873 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for masculin, with forms such as "amsculin", "macsulin", and "mascculin". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "masculine", "masculins", "masculines", 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 French form is masculin, spelled M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est de sexe mâle, qui a rapport à ce sexe.
- 2Qui possède les caractéristiques de ce sexe de manière développée.
- 3Qualifie un genre des mots avec le féminin et, dans certaines langues, le neutre, l’ambigène, etc. — Note d’usage : Il est soit logiquement lié aux hommes ou aux animaux mâles, soit arbitrairement défini par l’usage.
- 4Qualifie une rime formée par un mot dont l’accent porte sur la dernière syllabe non suivie d’un e muet.
- 5Qui est propre et particulier à l’homme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amsculin,macsulin,mascculin,mascluin,mascuiln,masculinn,mascullin,masculni,massculin,masuclin,mmasculin,msaculin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for masculin
Misspelling Variants of "masculin"
Frequency rank: #4,873 in French
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Nearby French words
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