musèlement
French, noun/my.zɛl.mɑ̃/
musèlement is spelled M-U-S-È-L-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musèlement is a French masculine noun meaning “muzzling (act of placing a muzzle on an animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de musellement”.
What does musèlement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemuzzling (act of placing a muzzle on an animal)
- 2
masculinesilencing (act by which someone is silenced)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de musellement.
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 musèlement
- musèlements plural
- musellement alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musèlement?
- /my.zɛl.mɑ̃/
- \my.zɛl.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is musèlement in French?
musèlement appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).