muscu

\mys.ky\

/\mys.ky\/ noun

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The verdict

“muscu” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,408
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-muscu · muscu · French

muscu · rank #25,408 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,408
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Myers

Nearest frequency peer: Myers (+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 « muscu »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « muscu » 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).

muscu vs muse
60% similar
muscu vs must
60% similar
muscu vs Musk
40% similar

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

Key facts for muscu
PropertyValue
Headwordmuscu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mys.ky\
Letters5
Frequency rank#25,408
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muscu »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).muscuse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Myers » (#25,409), « mousses » (#25,406), « mélangent » (#25,410). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « muscu » est au #25,408. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around muscu (IPA \mys.ky\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,408 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Musculation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for muscu, with forms such as "mmuscu", "msucu", and "mucsu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muse", "must", "Musk", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is muscu, spelled M-U-S-C-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Musculation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. « Les mecs qui se moquent le plus des gens qui font de la muscu, ce sont les gens qui font de la muscu ! », s’amuse l’éditeur Grégoire Hellot, lui-même pratiquant à ses heures.
  2. À côté du riz basmati, de l’avocat, du skyr et d’autres ingrédients stars, elles se font petit à petit une place dans les conseils nutritionnels des influenceurs fitness et muscu, Sissy Mua et Tibo InShape en tête.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmuscu
  • msucu
  • mucsu
  • musccu
  • musscu
  • musuc
  • umscu

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muscu - 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.

mmuscu1msucu2mucsu2musccu1musscu1musuc2umscu2
Edit distance from "muscu"

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 "muscu"?
"muscu" is spelled M-U-S-C-U. The IPA pronunciation is \mys.ky\.
What does "muscu" mean?
As a noun, "muscu" means: Musculation.
What words are commonly confused with "muscu"?
"muscu" is commonly confused with "muse", "must", "Musk". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "muscu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muscu" is \mys.ky\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muscu" come from?
"muscu" 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 "muscu", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Myers#25,409motta#25,405mûres#25,411noisy#25,415

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

mousses7 variantslooks7 variantspetra7 variantsrafle7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list