muscle poplité

\myskl pɔ.pli.te\

/\myskl pɔ.pli.te\/ noun

The verdict

“muscle poplité” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Muscle situé derrière le genou entre le fémur et le tibia.

Key facts for muscle poplité
PropertyValue
Headwordmuscle poplité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\myskl pɔ.pli.te\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “muscle poplité” sits in French frequency

muscle poplité falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for muscle poplité is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \myskl pɔ.pli.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Muscle situé derrière le genou entre le fémur et le tibia.".

No misspelling variants are generated for muscle poplité in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is muscle poplité, spelled M-U-S-C-L-E- -P-O-P-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Muscle situé derrière le genou entre le fémur et le tibia.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muscle poplité"?
"muscle poplité" is spelled M-U-S-C-L-E- -P-O-P-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \myskl pɔ.pli.te\.
What does "muscle poplité" mean?
As a noun, "muscle poplité" means: Muscle situé derrière le genou entre le fémur et le tibia.
How do you pronounce "muscle poplité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muscle poplité" is \myskl pɔ.pli.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muscle poplité" come from?
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Using “muscle poplité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-U-S-C-L-E- -P-O-P-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \myskl pɔ.pli.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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