muguet

/\my.ɡɛ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#40,877

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

muguet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom usuel de Convallaria majalis, plante herbacée des régions tempérées dont les fleurs printanières, petites et blanches, forment des grappes de clochettes très odorantes. Pronounced \my.ɡɛ\. Often confused with muret and mulet.

Key facts for muguet
PropertyValue
Headwordmuguet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.ɡɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#40,877
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of muguet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for muguet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.ɡɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,877 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for muguet, with forms such as "mguuet", "mmuguet", and "mugeut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "muret", "mulet", "mutuel", and more, 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 muguet, spelled M-U-G-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de Convallaria majalis, plante herbacée des régions tempérées dont les fleurs printanières, petites et blanches, forment des grappes de clochettes très odorantes.
  2. 2
    Nom vernaculaire donné à plusieurs espèces de plantes qui ressemblent à celle précédemment citée : Maianthemum bifolium ou muguet des dames ; Ophiopogon japonicus ou muguet du Japon ; Salpichroa origanifolia ou muguet des pampas ; Polygonatum sp. ou grand muguet ou muguet du pauvre.
  3. 3
    Candidose ; blanchet.
  4. 4
    Jeune homme élégant, dandy.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mguuet,mmuguet,mugeut,mugguet,muguett,mugute,muuget,umguet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for muguet

Misspelling Variants of "muguet"

mguuet6mmuguet7mugeut6mugguet7muguett7mugute6muuget6umguet6
Misspelling Variants of "muguet"

Frequency rank: #40,877 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muguet"?
"muguet" is spelled M-U-G-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \my.ɡɛ\.
What does "muguet" mean?
As a noun, "muguet" means: Nom usuel de Convallaria majalis, plante herbacée des régions tempérées dont les fleurs printanières, petites et blanches, forment des grappes de clochettes très odorantes.
What words are commonly confused with "muguet"?
"muguet" is commonly confused with "muret", "mulet", "mutuel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "muguet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muguet" is \my.ɡɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muguet" come from?
"muguet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.