muscat
\mys.ka\
The verdict
“muscat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,059
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs cépages produisant du raisin de table ou de cuve ; ce raisin lui-même ou le vin produit par ce raisin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muscat · muscat · French
muscat · rank #44,059 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,059
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moutier
Nearest frequency peer: moutier (-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 « muscat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- motoneige
motoneige
55,945 corpus weight
- motorisée
motorisée
55,944 corpus weight
- moutier
moutier
55,943 corpus weight
- muscat
muscat
55,942 corpus weight
- mutuels
mutuels
55,941 corpus weight
- médicamente…
médicamenteuse
55,940 corpus weight
What this shows « muscat » 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 | muscat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mys.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muscat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around muscat (IPA \mys.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,059 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for muscat, with forms such as "mmuscat", "msucat", and "mucsat". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "must", "muscu", "muscle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is muscat, spelled M-U-S-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs cépages produisant du raisin de table ou de cuve ; ce raisin lui-même ou le vin produit par ce raisin.
- 2Vin qu’on tire de ces raisins.
- 3Nom de plusieurs variétés de poires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muscat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aucune espèce de vigne ne porte le seul nom de muscat, il est toujours suivi d'un qualificatif, d'un nom de lieu, etc.
En France il existe au catalogue des espèces autorisées pour la production de vin, cinq espèces de cépages qui incluent le mot muscat, plus les espèces destinées à la consommation en tant que fruit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmuscat
- msucat
- mucsat
- musact
- muscatt
- musccat
- muscta
- musscat
- umscat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muscat - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).