musicienne

\my.zi.sjɛn\

/\my.zi.sjɛn\/ noun

The verdict

“musicienne” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,271
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-musicienne · musicienne · French

musicienne · rank #30,271 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,271
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mutilé

Nearest frequency peer: mutilé (+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 « musicienne »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « musicienne » 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).

musicienne vs musiciens
80% similar
musicienne vs musicien
80% similar
musicienne vs magicienne
80% similar

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

Key facts for musicienne
PropertyValue
Headwordmusicienne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.zi.sjɛn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#30,271
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « musicienne »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.musiciennese 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 « mutilé » (#30,272), « montrées » (#30,269), « monticule » (#30,268). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « musicienne » est au #30,271. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around musicienne (IPA \my.zi.sjɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,271 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for musicienne, with forms such as "mmusicienne", "msuicienne", and "muiscienne". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "musiciens", "musicien", "magicienne", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is musicienne, spelled M-U-S-I-C-I-E-N-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui joue ou compose de la musique, professionnellement ou en amatrice.
  2. 2
    Désignation de grade d’une membre des Governor General’s Foot Guards affectée à des fonctions de musicienne détenant le grade de soldate.
  3. 3
    Grive musicienne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La jeune musicienne, emportée par l’inspiration, ne nous entendit point ; la beauté du morceau, où se mêlaient la science et la sensibilité, nous émut assez pour nous imposer silence. Le baron cacha son visage dans ses mains ; le bourgeois grison devint sombre ; sa femme parut comme suffoquée ; le stupide baronnet lui-même laissa tomber son menton parmi l…
  2. Une recette, c’est comme une partition. La musicienne lit les notes qui se présentent à elle et, simultanément, elle en entend la mélodie : les voir c’est les entendre, avant même de les jouer.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmusicienne
  • msuicienne
  • muiscienne
  • musciienne
  • musiccienne
  • musiceinne
  • musiciene
  • musicienen
  • musicinene
  • musiicenne
  • mussicienne
  • umsicienne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmusicienne1msuicienne2muiscienne2musciienne2musiccienne1musiceinne2musiciene1musicienen2
Edit distance from "musicienne"

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 "musicienne"?
"musicienne" is spelled M-U-S-I-C-I-E-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \my.zi.sjɛn\.
What does "musicienne" mean?
As a noun, "musicienne" means: Celle qui joue ou compose de la musique, professionnellement ou en amatrice.
What words are commonly confused with "musicienne"?
"musicienne" is commonly confused with "musiciens", "musicien", "magicienne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musicienne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musicienne" is \my.zi.sjɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musicienne" come from?
"musicienne" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list