muscle
\myskl\
The verdict
“muscle” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,201
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe contractile assurant le mouvement, chez les animaux, dont l’être humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muscle · muscle · French
muscle · rank #9,201 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,201
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Murray
Nearest frequency peer: Murray (-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 « muscle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mondialisat…
mondialisation
90,803 corpus weight
- Mons
Mons
90,802 corpus weight
- Murray
Murray
90,801 corpus weight
- muscle
muscle
90,800 corpus weight
- mélanger
mélanger
90,799 corpus weight
- mêler
mêler
90,798 corpus weight
What this shows « muscle » 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 | muscle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myskl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muscle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around muscle (IPA \myskl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,201 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for muscle, with forms such as "mmuscle", "msucle", and "mucsle". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "muse", "musée", "muscu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 muscle, spelled M-U-S-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Organe contractile assurant le mouvement, chez les animaux, dont l’être humain.
- 2Moule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muscle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le forgeron qui doit battre le fer a la partie supérieure de son corps et les muscles des bras très-développés.
Ce sont les muscles qui constituent la chair rouge du corps. La plupart d’entre eux sont attachés à un os, à chaque extrémité. certains par l’intermédiaire d’un tendon. Les muscles agissent en se contractant et en se raccourcissant, tirant ainsi les os.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmuscle
- msucle
- mucsle
- musccle
- muscel
- musclle
- muslce
- musscle
- umscle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muscle - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "muscle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).