mumuse
\my.myz\
The verdict
“mumuse” is uncommon French (frequency #75,930 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,930
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot utilisé seulement dans la locution faire mumuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mumuse · mumuse · French
mumuse · rank #75,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,930
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH multilingues
Nearest frequency peer: multilingues (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mumuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mourez
mourez
24,074 corpus weight
- Mouzon
Mouzon
24,073 corpus weight
- multilingues
multilingues
24,072 corpus weight
- mumuse
mumuse
24,071 corpus weight
- murer
murer
24,070 corpus weight
- mutineries
mutineries
24,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mumuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mumuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.myz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mumuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mumuse is uncommon French at frequency #75,930 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.myz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot utilisé seulement dans la locution faire mumuse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mumuse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mumuse, spelled M-U-M-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Mot utilisé seulement dans la locution faire mumuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mumuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juste faire mumuse avec les grenouillettes en stretch et les pulls de poupée qu’on m’offre, écrire les faire-part triomphants, numéro deux est là !
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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