muscles

\myskl\

/\myskl\/ noun

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The verdict

“muscles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,321
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de muscle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-muscles · muscles · French

muscles · rank #6,321 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,321
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mondes

Nearest frequency peer: mondes (-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 « muscles »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « muscles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

muscles vs muses
71% similar
muscles vs musées
71% similar
muscles vs mutilés
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for muscles
PropertyValue
Headwordmuscles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\myskl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,321
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muscles »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).musclesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mondes » (#6,320), « nouveauté » (#6,322), « mat » (#6,319). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « muscles » est au #6,321. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around muscles (IPA \myskl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,321 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de muscle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for muscles, with forms such as "mmuscles", "msucles", and "mucsles". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "muses", "musées", "mutilés", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is muscles, spelled M-U-S-C-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de muscle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how muscles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je sentais l’intensité du courant grandir et à mesure ma gorge, mes mâchoires, tous les muscles de mon visage, jusqu’à mes paupières se contracter dans une crispation de plus en plus douloureuse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmuscles
  • msucles
  • mucsles
  • musccles
  • muscels
  • muscless
  • musclles
  • musclse
  • muslces
  • musscles
  • umscles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muscles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mmuscles1msucles2mucsles2musccles1muscels2muscless1musclles1musclse2
Edit distance from "muscles"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muscles"?
"muscles" is spelled M-U-S-C-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \myskl\.
What does "muscles" mean?
As a noun, "muscles" means: Pluriel de muscle.
What words are commonly confused with "muscles"?
"muscles" is commonly confused with "muses", "musées", "mutilés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "muscles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muscles" is \myskl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muscles" come from?
"muscles" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "muscles", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

massive#6,318porteur#6,332grandir#6,302envoyez#6,293

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

mariages11 variantsdéfendu11 variantsaffection11 variantscharité11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list