musical
\my.zi.kal\
The verdict
“musical” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,585
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient ou qui est relatif à la musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musical · musical · French
musical · rank #5,585 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,585
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milliard
Nearest frequency peer: milliard (-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 « musical »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marquis
marquis
94,419 corpus weight
- mensonges
mensonges
94,418 corpus weight
- milliard
milliard
94,417 corpus weight
- musical
musical
94,416 corpus weight
- mythe
mythe
94,415 corpus weight
- nettoyer
nettoyer
94,413 corpus weight
What this shows « musical » 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 | musical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.zi.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musical »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around musical (IPA \my.zi.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,585 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for musical, with forms such as "mmusical", "msuical", and "muiscal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "musicale", "musicaux", "musicales", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 musical, spelled M-U-S-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient ou qui est relatif à la musique.
- 2Qui a une sonorité agréable à l’oreille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how musical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Gouvernement a renouvelé pour la dixième fois, en 1865, le grand concours biennal de composition musicale, institué par l’arrêté royal du 19 septembre 1840.
[…]; la domesticité nobiliaire était fort recherchée, et il ne faudrait pas conclure que l’instruction musicale fût assez répandue à cette époque pour que tous les laquais jouassent du violon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmusical
- msuical
- muiscal
- muscial
- musiacl
- musicall
- musiccal
- musicla
- mussical
- umsical
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of musical - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "musical", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).