Musk
\mœsk\
The verdict
“Musk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,052
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musk · Musk · French
Musk · rank #29,052 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,052
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moustaches
Nearest frequency peer: moustaches (-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 « Musk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- motivant
motivant
70,952 corpus weight
- moulineaux
moulineaux
70,951 corpus weight
- moustaches
moustaches
70,950 corpus weight
- Musk
Musk
70,949 corpus weight
- médaillée
médaillée
70,948 corpus weight
- Médine
Médine
70,947 corpus weight
What this shows « Musk » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Musk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mœsk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Musk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Musk (IPA \mœsk\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,052 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Musk, with forms such as "mmusk", "msuk", and "muks". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muy", "must", "muté", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Musk, spelled M-U-S-K.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Musk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au sein de Twitter, la première semaine sous la houlette d’Elon Musk a ressemblé à une tornade.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmusk
- msuk
- muks
- muskk
- mussk
- umsk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Musk - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Musk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).