musée de cire

\my.ze də siʁ\

/\my.ze də siʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“musée de cire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un musée de cire est un musée qui expose des statues en cire représentant des personnes célèbres, qu’elles soient contemporaines, historiques, ou imaginaires, éventuellement dans des reconstitution...

Key facts for musée de cire
PropertyValue
Headwordmusée de cire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.ze də siʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “musée de cire” sits in French frequency

musée de cire falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

musée de cire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.ze də siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un musée de cire est un musée qui expose des statues en cire représentant des personnes célèbres, qu’elles soient contemporaines, historiques, ou imaginaires, éventuellement dans des reconstitution...".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for musée de cire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 musée de cire, spelled M-U-S-É-E- -D-E- -C-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un musée de cire est un musée qui expose des statues en cire représentant des personnes célèbres, qu’elles soient contemporaines, historiques, ou imaginaires, éventuellement dans des reconstitutions de scènes mémorables dont elles ont été les protagonistes. — (Wikipédia)

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "musée de cire"?
"musée de cire" is spelled M-U-S-É-E- -D-E- -C-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \my.ze də siʁ\.
What does "musée de cire" mean?
As a noun, "musée de cire" means: Un musée de cire est un musée qui expose des statues en cire représentant des personnes célèbres, qu’elles soient contemporaines, historiques, ou imaginaires, éventuellement dans des reconstitution...
How do you pronounce "musée de cire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musée de cire" is \my.ze də siʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musée de cire" come from?
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Using “musée de cire”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-U-S-É-E- -D-E- -C-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \my.ze də siʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list