musées

\my.ze\

/\my.ze\/ noun

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The verdict

“musées” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,369. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,369
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête destinée à honorer les Muses, et ayant lieu à Thespies en Grèce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-musees · musées · French

musées · rank #5,369 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,369
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mineur

Nearest frequency peer: mineur (-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 « musées »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « musées » 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).

musées vs muses
83% similar
musées vs museo
67% similar
musées vs Museum
33% similar

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

Key facts for musées
PropertyValue
Headwordmusées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.ze\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,369
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musées »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).muséesse 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 « mineur » (#5,368), « nerveux » (#5,370), « maîtresse » (#5,367). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « musées » est au #5,369. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around musées (IPA \my.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,369 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fête destinée à honorer les Muses, et ayant lieu à Thespies en Grèce.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for musées, with forms such as "mmusées", "msuées", and "musees". 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, "muses", "museo", "Museum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is musées, spelled M-U-S-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fête destinée à honorer les Muses, et ayant lieu à Thespies en Grèce.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. On célébrait en leur honneur, dans plusieurs lieux de la Grèce, des fêtes appelées musées, et particulièrement chez les Thespiens,...

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusées
  • msuées
  • musees
  • museés
  • mussées
  • muséess
  • musése
  • muéses
  • umsées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmusées1msuées2musees1museés2mussées1muséess1musése2muéses2
Edit distance from "musées"

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 "musées"?
"musées" is spelled M-U-S-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \my.ze\.
What does "musées" mean?
As a noun, "musées" means: Fête destinée à honorer les Muses, et ayant lieu à Thespies en Grèce.
What words are commonly confused with "musées"?
"musées" is commonly confused with "muses", "museo", "Museum". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musées" is \my.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musées" come from?
"musées" 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 "musées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mineur#5,368neutre#5,371maxime#5,366maires#5,362

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

oeuvres9 variantsposter9 variantsinconnue9 variantsHélène9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list