musculeux
French, adjective/mys.ky.lø/
musculeux is spelled M-U-S-C-U-L-E-U-X (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musculeux is a French adjective meaning “muscular” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est de la nature des muscles ; qui est composé de fibres musculaires”.
What does musculeux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
muscular
- 2
muscly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est de la nature des muscles ; qui est composé de fibres musculaires. 2. Où il y a beaucoup de muscles. 3. Qui a une forte musculature.
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 musculeux
- musculeuse feminine
- musculeuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musculeux?
- /mys.ky.lø/
- \mys.ky.lø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to musculeux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is musculeux in French?
musculeux appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).