musée

\my.ze\

/\my.ze\/ noun

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The verdict

“musée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,336
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu destiné à réunir, conserver, classer et exposer les œuvres d’art, les objets et les documents intéressant les sciences et leurs applications.

Corpus desk

Index FR-musee · musée · French

musée · rank #1,336 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,336
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mari

Nearest frequency peer: mari (-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 « musée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « musée » 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).

musée vs must
60% similar
musée vs muté
60% similar
musée vs Musk
40% similar

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

Key facts for musée
PropertyValue
Headwordmusée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.ze\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,336
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musée »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.muséese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mari » (#1,335), « populaire » (#1,337), « magnifique » (#1,334). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « musée » est au #1,336. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around musée (IPA \my.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,336 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for musée, with forms such as "mmusée", "msuée", and "musee". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "must", "muté", "Musk", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is musée, spelled M-U-S-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu destiné à réunir, conserver, classer et exposer les œuvres d’art, les objets et les documents intéressant les sciences et leurs applications.
  2. 2
    Lieu rempli d'objets rares, beaux, précieux.
  3. 3
    Lieu (ville, quartier) où se trouvent réunis des ensembles d'œuvres ou d'édifices du passé, à valeur historique et artistique → voir ville-musée.
  4. 4
    Collection de choses diverses.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans un musée de sculpture ou de peinture, il me semble toujours que certains recoins perdus doivent être le théâtre de lubricités cachées.
  2. Rien ne me paraît ressembler autant à un bordel qu’un musée. On y trouve le même côté louche et le même côté pétrifié.

Synonyms

cabinetconservatoiregalerie

This word in other languages

museum(English)museo(Español)Museum(Deutsch)museu(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusée
  • msuée
  • musee
  • museé
  • mussée
  • muése
  • umsée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmusée1msuée2musee1museé2mussée1muése2umsée2
Edit distance from "musée"

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 "musée"?
"musée" is spelled M-U-S-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \my.ze\.
What does "musée" mean?
As a noun, "musée" means: Lieu destiné à réunir, conserver, classer et exposer les œuvres d’art, les objets et les documents intéressant les sciences et leurs applications.
What words are commonly confused with "musée"?
"musée" is commonly confused with "must", "muté", "Musk". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musée" is \my.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musée" come from?
"musée" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

siège#1,347arrêt#1,316chaud#1,357ouvre#1,369

Similar misspelling depth

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

gueule7 variantspages7 variantsfinir7 variantssites7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list