mucus
\my.kys\
The verdict
“mucus” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,906
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mucosité, sécrétion visqueuse et translucide, produite par une muqueuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mucus · mucus · French
mucus · rank #39,906 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,906
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mormons
Nearest frequency peer: mormons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mucus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monégasques
monégasques
60,098 corpus weight
- mormons
mormons
60,096 corpus weight
- mucus
mucus
60,095 corpus weight
- mufti
mufti
60,094 corpus weight
- méritais
méritais
60,093 corpus weight
- nauséabonde
nauséabonde
60,092 corpus weight
What this shows « mucus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mucus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.kys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mucus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around mucus (IPA \my.kys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,906 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mucosité, sécrétion visqueuse et translucide, produite par une muqueuse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mucus, with forms such as "mcuus", "mmucus", and "muccus". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "mus", "murs", "munis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mucus, spelled M-U-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Mucosité, sécrétion visqueuse et translucide, produite par une muqueuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mucus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains mucus produits par des amphibiens peuvent contenir de puissantes toxines protégeant l’animal contre ses prédateurs et des infections fongiques, bactériennes ou virales.
Pour la défense, des cellules produisent du mucus, sorte d’épaisse couche de gel qui tapisse les cellules de notre tube digestif et les protège, comme un bouclier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcuus
- mmucus
- muccus
- mucuss
- muucs
- umcus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mucus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).