musc
\mysk\
The verdict
“musc” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,382
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière brune odorante que contient une poche située dans le ventre de certains cervidés d’Asie centrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musc · musc · French
musc · rank #40,382 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,382
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH musa
Nearest frequency peer: musa (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « musc »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- munch
munch
59,622 corpus weight
- mundi
mundi
59,621 corpus weight
- musa
musa
59,620 corpus weight
- musc
musc
59,619 corpus weight
- museler
museler
59,618 corpus weight
- musica
musica
59,617 corpus weight
What this shows « musc » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | musc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mysk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musc »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around musc (IPA \mysk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,382 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for musc, with forms such as "mmusc", "msuc", and "mucs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muy", "muse", "must", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is musc, spelled M-U-S-C.
Definition
- 1Matière brune odorante que contient une poche située dans le ventre de certains cervidés d’Asie centrale.
- 2Parfum préparé avec cette substance.
- 3Cervidé qui habite les pentes les plus raides et sauvages des hauts sommets de l'Asie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how musc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d’enfants, Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies, — Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants, Ayant l’expansion des choses infinies, Comme l’ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l’encens, Qui chantent les transports de l’esprit et des sens.
Le musc pur, soluble dans l’eau chaude presque en totalité, l’est également dans l’alcool et l’éther.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmusc
- msuc
- mucs
- muscc
- mussc
- umsc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of musc - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).