muscle
French, noun
muscle is spelled M-U-S-C-L-E (6 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written French, the 9,132nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muscle is a French masculine noun meaning “muscle (contractile tissue, strength)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of muscler. With an accent, musclé is a different word: “muscled, muscly, muscular”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organe contractile assurant le mouvement, chez les animaux, dont l’être humain”.
What does muscle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemuscle (contractile tissue, strength)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
muscled, muscly, muscular
verb
- 1
past participle of muscler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Organe contractile assurant le mouvement, chez les animaux, dont l’être humain. 2. Moule.
adjective: 1. Qui a les muscles volumineux, bien dessinés. 2. , 3. Qui a du nerf, qui est fort, qui a du corps.
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 muscle
- muscles plural
- musclée feminine
- musclés masculine plural
- musclées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to muscle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is muscle in French?
muscle appears 6.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).