musique

/\my.zik\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#450

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

musique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Art de composer des sons pouvant apparaitre sous différentes formes : une mélodie, une harmonie, un rythme […] ; théorie de cet art, science des sons considérés sous le rapport de la mélodie, l’har... Pronounced \my.zik\. It ranks #450 in French word frequency. Often confused with musiques and mystique.

Key facts for musique
PropertyValue
Headwordmusique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.zik\
Letters7
Frequency rank#450
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of musique in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for musique is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.zik\. Corpus data places it at rank #450 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for musique, with forms such as "mmusique", "msuique", and "muisque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "musiques", "mystique", "masque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is musique, spelled M-U-S-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de composer des sons pouvant apparaitre sous différentes formes : une mélodie, une harmonie, un rythme […] ; théorie de cet art, science des sons considérés sous le rapport de la mélodie, l’harmonie, le rythme.
  2. 2
    Toute production qui relève de cet art ; succession de sons mesurés et rythmés selon certaines règles.
  3. 3
    Ensemble d’œuvres relevant de cet art et caractérisées par leur genre, par l’instrument, la formation pour lesquels elles sont conçues.
  4. 4
    Notation de la musique au moyen de signes spéciaux, et des feuilles, cahiers ou livres où elle est notée ; partition.
  5. 5
    Société philharmonique ou ensemble d’exécutants de musique instrumentale.
  6. 6
    Combinaison de sons rappelant la musique. Sons agréables.
  7. 7
    Suite de signes conventionnels indiquant les dernières performances d’un cheval de course.
  8. 8
    Ensemble de discussions, de débats, d’idées.
  9. 9
    Débris de plâtre broyés que l'on mélange au plâtre neuf que l'on gâche.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmusique,msuique,muisque,musiqeu,musiqque,musiuqe,musqiue,mussique,umsique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for musique

Misspelling Variants of "musique"

mmusique8msuique7muisque7musiqeu7musiqque8musiuqe7musqiue7mussique8
Misspelling Variants of "musique"

Frequency rank: #450 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "musique"?
"musique" is spelled M-U-S-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \my.zik\.
What does "musique" mean?
As a noun, "musique" means: Art de composer des sons pouvant apparaitre sous différentes formes : une mélodie, une harmonie, un rythme […] ; théorie de cet art, science des sons considérés sous le rapport de la mélodie, l’har...
What words are commonly confused with "musique"?
"musique" is commonly confused with "musiques", "mystique", "masque". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "musique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musique" is \my.zik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musique" come from?
"musique" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.