musicien

\my.zi.sjɛ̃\

/\my.zi.sjɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“musicien” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,854
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui joue ou compose de la musique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-musicien · musicien · French

musicien · rank #6,854 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,854
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH municipaux

Nearest frequency peer: municipaux (-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 « musicien »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « musicien » 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).

musicien vs musiciens
89% similar
musicien vs musicienne
80% similar
musicien vs magicien
75% similar

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

Key facts for musicien
PropertyValue
Headwordmusicien
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.zi.sjɛ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,854
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musicien »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.musiciense 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 « municipaux » (#6,853), « méchants » (#6,855), « more » (#6,852). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « musicien » est au #6,854. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around musicien (IPA \my.zi.sjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,854 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for musicien, with forms such as "mmusicien", "msuicien", and "muiscien". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "musiciens", "musicienne", "magicien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is musicien, spelled M-U-S-I-C-I-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui joue ou compose de la musique.
  2. 2
    Personne qui fait profession de composer ou d’exécuter de la musique.
  3. 3
    Maître-chanteur.
  4. 4
    Haricot.
  5. 5
    Désignation du grade d’un membre du Governor General’s Foot Guards affecté à des fonctions de musicien détenant le grade de soldat

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La musique exprime les sentiments, mais elle serait bien empêchée de les définir, et, sans le commentaire des paroles, absent de la musique instrumentale, l’auditeur reste toujours dans un certain vague quant à la nature et à l’objet du sentiment dont s’est inspiré le musicien.
  2. De leur balcon qu’on atteignait par une échelle, les musiciens déversaient sans répit sur la foule, des airs de valse, de java, de shimmy, de charleston et tout le monde se trémoussait.

Synonyms

musicomusicosmusicots

This word in other languages

musician(English)músico(Español)Musikant(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusicien
  • msuicien
  • muiscien
  • musciien
  • musiccien
  • musicein
  • musicienn
  • musicine
  • musiicen
  • mussicien
  • umsicien

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmusicien1msuicien2muiscien2musciien2musiccien1musicein2musicienn1musicine2
Edit distance from "musicien"

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 "musicien"?
"musicien" is spelled M-U-S-I-C-I-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \my.zi.sjɛ̃\.
What does "musicien" mean?
As a noun, "musicien" means: Personne qui joue ou compose de la musique.
What words are commonly confused with "musicien"?
"musicien" is commonly confused with "musiciens", "musicienne", "magicien". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musicien"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musicien" is \my.zi.sjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musicien" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

méchants#6,855obstacle#6,858gratuits#6,833proposés#6,875

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

profits11 variantsfantôme11 variantsentrent11 variantssouhaité11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list