Mucem

name

The verdict

“Mucem” is uncommon French (frequency #61,716 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,716
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musée marseillais consacré à la Méditerranée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mucem · Mucem · French

Mucem · rank #61,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,716
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Moustier

Nearest frequency peer: Moustier (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Mucem »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mucem » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Mucem
PropertyValue
HeadwordMucem
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#61,716
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Mucem » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Mucemtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Moustier » (#61,715), « multiplications » (#61,717), « moufles » (#61,714). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Mucem » est au #61,716. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Mucem is uncommon French at frequency #61,716 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Musée marseillais consacré à la Méditerranée.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Mucem in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Mucem, spelled M-U-C-E-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Musée marseillais consacré à la Méditerranée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Mucem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au Mucem de Marseille, Augustin Trapenard reçoit notamment le prix Nobel Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, qui publie Identité nomade chez Robert Laffont.
  2. À Marseille, le Mucem s'affirme comme le grand musée consacré à la Méditerranée.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Mucem"?
"Mucem" is spelled M-U-C-E-M.
What does "Mucem" mean?
As a proper noun, "Mucem" means: Musée marseillais consacré à la Méditerranée.
What language does "Mucem" come from?
"Mucem" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mucem", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list