muses
\myz\
The verdict
“muses” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,145. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,145
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de muse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muses · muses · French
muses · rank #31,145 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,145
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méconnus
Nearest frequency peer: méconnus (+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 « muses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mongol
mongol
68,860 corpus weight
- Motorola
Motorola
68,859 corpus weight
- mouse
mouse
68,858 corpus weight
- muses
muses
68,856 corpus weight
- méconnus
méconnus
68,855 corpus weight
- mélodique
mélodique
68,854 corpus weight
What this shows « muses » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « muses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around muses (IPA \myz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,145 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de muse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for muses, with forms such as "mmuses", "msues", and "muess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "must", "muté", "Musk", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 muses, spelled M-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de muse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmuses
- msues
- muess
- musess
- musses
- umses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muses - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).