mühsam
\ˈmyːzaːm\
The verdict
“mühsam” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Pénible, fastidieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muhsam · mühsam · French
mühsam · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | mühsam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmyːzaːm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mühsam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mühsam is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmyːzaːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pénible, fastidieux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mühsam, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 mühsam, spelled M-Ü-H-S-A-M.
Definition
- 1Pénible, fastidieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mühsam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Putzen ist eine mühsame Arbeit.
Antonyms
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.