musée de cire
\my.ze də siʁ\
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musée de cire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ze də siʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “musée de cire” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Un 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)
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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.
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- 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.
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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.