musique
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.zik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Art 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.
- 2Toute production qui relève de cet art ; succession de sons mesurés et rythmés selon certaines règles.
- 3Ensemble d’œuvres relevant de cet art et caractérisées par leur genre, par l’instrument, la formation pour lesquels elles sont conçues.
- 4Notation de la musique au moyen de signes spéciaux, et des feuilles, cahiers ou livres où elle est notée ; partition.
- 5Société philharmonique ou ensemble d’exécutants de musique instrumentale.
- 6Combinaison de sons rappelant la musique. Sons agréables.
- 7Suite de signes conventionnels indiquant les dernières performances d’un cheval de course.
- 8Ensemble de discussions, de débats, d’idées.
- 9Débris de plâtre broyés que l'on mélange au plâtre neuf que l'on gâche.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #450 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "musique"?
What does "musique" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "musique"?
How do you pronounce "musique"?
What language does "musique" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: