muselière
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,718
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
muselière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appareil que l’on met à la gueule, à la bouche de quelques animaux pour les empêcher de mordre, de paître, etc. Pronounced \my.zə.ljɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muselière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.zə.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for muselière is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.zə.ljɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,718 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for muselière in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is muselière, spelled M-U-S-E-L-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appareil que l’on met à la gueule, à la bouche de quelques animaux pour les empêcher de mordre, de paître, etc.
- 2Grillage entourant la planche d’envol d’une ruche pour en faciliter le déplacement, permettant ainsi de la fermer et de la protéger de prédateurs tout en laissant respirer les abeilles.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #61,718 in French
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