musard
The verdict
“musard” 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) - Qui passe son temps à muser, à ne rien faire, désœuvré, flâneur, oisif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musard · musard · French
musard · 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 | musard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « musard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
musard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui passe son temps à muser, à ne rien faire, désœuvré, flâneur, oisif.".
Zero misspellings are on record for musard in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is musard, spelled M-U-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui passe son temps à muser, à ne rien faire, désœuvré, flâneur, oisif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how musard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un coup de sifflet de Zirone – coup de sifflet de gamin musard - fit envoler tout un groupe de ces pigeons bleus …
Mademoiselle, haussant les épaules, nous rentre à l’hôtel, traînardes, égrenées, si musardes qu’elle doit toujours en attendre quelqu’une au détour des rues.
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.