muance
\mɥɑ̃s\
The verdict
“muance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage d'un hexacorde à un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muance · muance · French
muance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɥɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « muance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
muance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɥɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
muance has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is muance, spelled M-U-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Passage d'un hexacorde à un autre.
- 2Droit de mutation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bourgeois, dans Le droict Chemin de Musique, Genève 1550, réfute l'usage de faire une muance en montant sur ré alors qu'on l'a fait en descendant sur la.
Lorsqu'un chant dépasse la tessiture de l’hexacorde, il faut passer d’un hexacorde à un autre, par le moyen d’une muance.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.