music

\ˈmjuː.zɪk\

/\ˈmjuː.zɪk\/ noun

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The verdict

“music” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,416
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-music · music · French

music · rank #6,416 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,416
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Morgan

Nearest frequency peer: Morgan (-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 « music »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « music » 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).

music vs must
60% similar
music vs Musk
40% similar
music vs musso
60% similar

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

Key facts for music
PropertyValue
Headwordmusic
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈmjuː.zɪk\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,416
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « music »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.musicse 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 « Morgan » (#6,415), « mécanismes » (#6,417), « mettra » (#6,414). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « music » est au #6,416. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around music (IPA \ˈmjuː.zɪk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,416 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Musique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for music, with forms such as "mmusic", "msuic", and "muisc". 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", "Musk", "musso", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is music, spelled M-U-S-I-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Musique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. In recent years, while IceT has steered his career away from recorded music, he has continued to tout his streetcred.
  2. I like different types of music.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusic
  • msuic
  • muisc
  • musci
  • musicc
  • mussic
  • umsic

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmusic1msuic2muisc2musci2musicc1mussic1umsic2
Edit distance from "music"

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 "music"?
"music" is spelled M-U-S-I-C. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈmjuː.zɪk\.
What does "music" mean?
As a noun, "music" means: Musique.
What words are commonly confused with "music"?
"music" is commonly confused with "must", "Musk", "musso". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "music"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "music" is \ˈmjuː.zɪk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "music" come from?
"music" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pneus#6,423filet#6,395exclu#6,393costa#6,385

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

mettra7 variantscolline7 variantscoller7 variantsbalade7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list