muets
\mɥɛ\
The verdict
“muets” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,948
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de muet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muets · muets · French
muets · rank #22,948 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,948
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mousquetaires
Nearest frequency peer: mousquetaires (-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 « muets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- MOOC
MOOC
77,056 corpus weight
- morgue
morgue
77,055 corpus weight
- mousquetair…
mousquetaires
77,054 corpus weight
- muets
muets
77,053 corpus weight
- Mélissa
Mélissa
77,052 corpus weight
- mûre
mûre
77,051 corpus weight
What this shows « muets » 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 | muets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around muets (IPA \mɥɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,948 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de muet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for muets, with forms such as "meuts", "mmuets", and "muest". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mus", "murs", "must", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is muets, spelled M-U-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de muet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes spleens, tu les atténuais, Et ma vie était moins damnée À cette époque fortunée Où dans l’âme, à frissons muets, Tendrement tu m’insinuais Tes yeux bleus !
Mathieu Dolieu pérorait sur son sujet favori, les rapports du génie et de la maladie ; ses invités l’écoutaient avec une ferveur admirative ; Sophie, avec un sourire appendu à sa jolie bouche de marquise du XVIIIᵉ siècle, tournait des regards perçants vers le domestique à qui elle donnait des ordres muets, ponctuellement exécutés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- meuts
- mmuets
- muest
- muetss
- muetts
- mutes
- umets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muets - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).