musette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,189
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
musette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument de musique à vent dont le soufflet est actionné par le mouvement du bras, genre de cornemuse champêtre ; cabrette ; piva Pronounced \my.zɛt\. Often confused with musée and mette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.zɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for musette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.zɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,189 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for musette, with forms such as "mmusette", "msuette", and "muestte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "musée", "mette", "muette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 musette, spelled M-U-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique à vent dont le soufflet est actionné par le mouvement du bras, genre de cornemuse champêtre ; cabrette ; piva
- 2Air fait pour cet instrument, ou dont le caractère lui convient.
- 3Danse française des XVIIᵉ et XVIIIᵉ siècles, fréquente dans les suites de danses de Couperin, Rameau, Bach, etc.
- 4Musique d’accompagnement de ces types de danses.
- 5Bal musette.
- 6Hautbois piccolo.
- 7L’un des jeux d’anche de l’orgue et de l’harmonium.
- 8Sac, généralement porté en bandoulière, dans lequel les soldats, les touristes, les écoliers, etc., enferment des provisions ou des objets divers.
- 9Sac qu'on attache au cou des chevaux et dans lequel ils mangent l'avoine.
- 10Variante de musaraigne musette (mammifère insectivore).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmusette,msuette,muestte,musete,musetet,mussette,mustete,umsette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for musette
Misspelling Variants of "musette"
Frequency rank: #45,189 in French
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