muser
\my.ze\
The verdict
“muser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flâner ; perdre son temps à des riens ; musarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muser · muser · French
muser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \my.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « muser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
muser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \my.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for muser, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is muser, spelled M-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Flâner ; perdre son temps à des riens ; musarder.
- 2Entrer en rut, en parlant du cerf.
- 3Émettre un bruit sourd la bouche fermée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il vit venir le facteur du télégraphe qui, sans se presser, musait à droite et à gauche.
Elle apportait un chapeau à la baronne, elle avait musé tout le long du boulevard, avec ses yeux d’un bleu de pervenche, son nez rose, sa bouche qui riait toujours, dans le plus adorable des petits visages qu’on pût voir.
Synonyms
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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.