musette

\my.zɛt\

/\my.zɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“musette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,189
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique à vent dont le soufflet est actionné par le mouvement du bras, genre de cornemuse champêtre ; cabrette ; piva

Corpus desk

Index FR-musette · musette · French

musette · rank #45,189 · 8 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,189
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mythologies

Nearest frequency peer: mythologies (+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 « musette »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « musette » 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).

musette vs musée
57% similar
musette vs mette
71% similar
musette vs muette
86% similar

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

Key facts for musette
PropertyValue
Headwordmusette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.zɛt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#45,189
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musette »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).musettese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mythologies » (#45,190), « Mougins » (#45,187), « mécontente » (#45,191). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « musette » est au #45,189. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around musette (IPA \my.zɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for musette, with forms such as "mmusette", "msuette", and "muestte". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "musée", "mette", "muette", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is musette, spelled M-U-S-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument de musique à vent dont le soufflet est actionné par le mouvement du bras, genre de cornemuse champêtre ; cabrette ; piva
  2. 2
    Air fait pour cet instrument, ou dont le caractère lui convient.
  3. 3
    Danse française des XVIIᵉ et XVIIIᵉ siècles, fréquente dans les suites de danses de Couperin, Rameau, Bach, etc.
  4. 4
    Musique d’accompagnement de ces types de danses.
  5. 5
    Bal musette.
  6. 6
    Hautbois piccolo.
  7. 7
    L’un des jeux d’anche de l’orgue et de l’harmonium.
  8. 8
    Sac, généralement porté en bandoulière, dans lequel les soldats, les touristes, les écoliers, etc., enferment des provisions ou des objets divers.
  9. 9
    Sac qu'on attache au cou des chevaux et dans lequel ils mangent l'avoine.
  10. 10
    Variante de musaraigne musette (mammifère insectivore).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Jouer de la musette, danser au son de la musette.
  2. Tu vois, Tiennet, que toutes ces affaires-là sont bien innocentes ; mais c’est à présent qu’il faut nous expliquer tous les trois, mes amis ; car voilà Joset qui se met dans la volonté d’employer son premier gage (ayant jusqu’à cette heure tout donné en garde à sa mère) à faire achat d’une musette, et comme il dit qu’il est mince ouvrier, et que son cœur…

Synonyms

havresacsac

This word in other languages

bagpipe(English)Dudelsack(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusette
  • msuette
  • muestte
  • musete
  • musetet
  • mussette
  • mustete
  • umsette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of musette - 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.

mmusette1msuette2muestte2musete1musetet2mussette1mustete2umsette2
Edit distance from "musette"

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 "musette"?
"musette" is spelled M-U-S-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \my.zɛt\.
What does "musette" mean?
As a noun, "musette" means: Instrument de musique à vent dont le soufflet est actionné par le mouvement du bras, genre de cornemuse champêtre ; cabrette ; piva
What words are commonly confused with "musette"?
"musette" is commonly confused with "musée", "mette", "muette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musette" is \my.zɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musette" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "musette", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Mougins#45,187Moravie#45,182mentait#45,170matheux#45,166

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

month8 variantsornano8 variantspiccolo8 variantslinks8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list