musqué
The verdict
“musqué” is uncommon French (frequency #64,632 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,632
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui rappelle l'odeur du musc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “musqué” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
musqué is uncommon French at frequency #64,632 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for musqué in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is musqué, spelled M-U-S-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui rappelle l'odeur du musc.
- 2Qui rappelle le goût du muscat.
- 3Qui a trop d’apprêt, de recherche, qui affecte les ornements futiles.
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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Using “musqué”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-U-S-Q-U-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.