mulet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,921
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mulet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Équidé mâle né d’un âne et d’une jument, ou d’un cheval et d’une ânesse (on dit plus précisément dans ce cas bardot), et généralement stérile. Pronounced \my.lɛ\. Often confused with muse and must.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mulet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,921 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mulet, with forms such as "mluet", "mmulet", and "muelt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muse", "must", "mûre", 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 mulet, spelled M-U-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Équidé mâle né d’un âne et d’une jument, ou d’un cheval et d’une ânesse (on dit plus précisément dans ce cas bardot), et généralement stérile.
- 2Tout animal qui provient de deux animaux de différentes espèces.
- 3Toute plante issue d’une semence fécondée par le pollen d’une plante d’une autre espèce. → voir hybride
- 4Style de coupe de cheveux dit « nuque longue ». → voir à la Bressant
- 5Vélo de rechange.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mluet,mmulet,muelt,mulett,mullet,multe,umlet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "mulet"
Frequency rank: #32,921 in French
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