musculaire

\mys.ky.lɛʁ\

/\mys.ky.lɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“musculaire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,035. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,035
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Des muscles ; relatif aux muscles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-musculaire · musculaire · French

musculaire · rank #10,035 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,035
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH muet

Nearest frequency peer: muet (-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 « musculaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « musculaire » 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).

musculaire vs musculaires
91% similar
musculaire vs musculature
82% similar

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

Key facts for musculaire
PropertyValue
Headwordmusculaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mys.ky.lɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#10,035
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musculaire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).musculairese 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 « muet » (#10,034), « métalliques » (#10,036), « mortels » (#10,033). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « musculaire » est au #10,035. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around musculaire (IPA \mys.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,035 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for musculaire, with forms such as "mmusculaire", "msuculaire", and "mucsulaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "musculaires", "musculature", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is musculaire, spelled M-U-S-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Des muscles ; relatif aux muscles.
  2. 2
    Se dit d’un véhicule qui est mût par la seule force de ou des personnes qui l’occupe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Petit, maigre, s'il ne possédait pas une grande force musculaire, en revanche, son énergie morale le mettait au-dessus de toutes les épreuves et de tous les événements.
  2. Comme Tonsard, que son renom dispensait de toute preuve de férocité, comme tous ceux qui sont gardés par une opinion publique quelconque, Socquard ne déployait jamais sa triomphante force musculaire, à moins que des amis ne l’en priassent.

Antonyms

électriqueà assistance électrique

This word in other languages

muscular(English)muscular(Español)muskulär(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusculaire
  • msuculaire
  • mucsulaire
  • muscculaire
  • muscluaire
  • muscualire
  • musculaier
  • musculairre
  • muscularie
  • musculiare
  • muscullaire
  • mussculaire
  • musuclaire
  • umsculaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmusculaire1msuculaire2mucsulaire2muscculaire1muscluaire2muscualire2musculaier2musculairre1
Edit distance from "musculaire"

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 "musculaire"?
"musculaire" is spelled M-U-S-C-U-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mys.ky.lɛʁ\.
What does "musculaire" mean?
As an adjective, "musculaire" means: Des muscles ; relatif aux muscles.
What words are commonly confused with "musculaire"?
"musculaire" is commonly confused with "musculaires", "musculature". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musculaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musculaire" is \mys.ky.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musculaire" come from?
"musculaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

parallèles#10,044israéliens#10,022progressif#10,052influencer#10,017

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

productif14 variantshypocrite14 variantsexpriment14 variantsdétection14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list