muscardine
French, noun\my.skaʁ.din\
muscardine is spelled M-U-S-C-A-R-D-I-N-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muscardine is a French feminine noun meaning “muscardine (fungal disease of silkworms)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie cryptogamique du ver à soie produite par un champignon du genre Botrytis”.
What does muscardine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemuscardine (fungal disease of silkworms)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maladie cryptogamique du ver à soie produite par un champignon du genre Botrytis.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of muscardine
- muscardines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muscardine?
- \my.skaʁ.din\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is muscardine in French?
muscardine appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).