musicologue
\my.zi.kɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“musicologue” is uncommon French (frequency #68,487 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,487
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste de la musicologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musicologue · musicologue · French
musicologue · rank #68,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,487
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH multipartisme
Nearest frequency peer: multipartisme (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « musicologue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multilatéra…
multilatéraux
31,516 corpus weight
- multipartis…
multipartisme
31,515 corpus weight
- musicologue
musicologue
31,514 corpus weight
- muséal
muséal
31,513 corpus weight
- myopathie
myopathie
31,512 corpus weight
- myrrhe
myrrhe
31,511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « musicologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musicologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.zi.kɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « musicologue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
musicologue is uncommon French at frequency #68,487 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.zi.kɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialiste de la musicologie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for musicologue in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is musicologue, spelled M-U-S-I-C-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialiste de la musicologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how musicologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’élégant musicologue, peinturologue et psychanalyste consacre six pages et demie à arabesquer de façon très chic sur Mᵐᵉ Bouchot, que Stendhal faillit épouser à Civitavecchia et qu’il appelle Faus (fausse, fosse, etc.), sur sa mort « sans comédie, mais théâtrale », […].
Le musicologue argentin Carlos Vega a identifié dans le Cancionero musical des XVᵉ et XVIᵉ siècles un morceau présentant le rythme de base de la habanera.
This word in other languages
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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