mus
\muʃ\
The verdict
“mus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,805) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,805
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de cartes populaire d'origine basque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mus · mus · French
mus · rank #26,805 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,805
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Murdoch
Nearest frequency peer: Murdoch (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mus »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- moqueries
moqueries
73,199 corpus weight
- mouture
mouture
73,198 corpus weight
- Murdoch
Murdoch
73,197 corpus weight
- mus
mus
73,196 corpus weight
- mécène
mécène
73,194 corpus weight
- médicalement
médicalement
73,193 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mus » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \muʃ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mus »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mus is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "MW", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \muʃ\. Frequency #26,805 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Jeu de cartes populaire d'origine basque.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "MW", "Mx", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mus, spelled M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Jeu de cartes populaire d'origine basque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais pourquoi, dans ce cas, n’y joue-t-on pas au Pays Basque — dont le jeu national, le mus, est très différent de l’aluette, dans les Landes, dans les Pyrénées, en Catalogne et dans tout le Sud-Ouest, où l'usage des cartes espagnoles s’est maintenu pendant longtemps ?
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).