musqué
The verdict
“musqué” is uncommon French (frequency #64,632 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,632
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rappelle l'odeur du musc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musque · musqué · French
musqué · rank #64,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,632
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH murée
Nearest frequency peer: murée (-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 « musqué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mousqueton
mousqueton
35,373 corpus weight
- multipliait
multipliait
35,371 corpus weight
- murée
murée
35,370 corpus weight
- musqué
musqué
35,369 corpus weight
- mécontentem…
mécontentements
35,367 corpus weight
- médicalisée
médicalisée
35,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « musqué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « musqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
musqué is uncommon French at frequency #64,632 among 5,038 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how musqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moi aussi, les soirs trop chauds m'ont terrassée ; moi aussi, l'odeur musquée des foins, les roulades du rossignol m'ont livré à la folie, à la faute.
Elles firent la gloire de leur région en répandant à travers la planète le goût musqué et puissant des calendos, mais les réduire à ce seul fromage eût été une erreur...
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).