musse
French, noun
musse is spelled M-U-S-S-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musse is a French feminine noun meaning “hiding place; cache” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mouvoir. With an accent, mussé is a different word: “past participle of musser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passage étroit dans une haie”.
What does musse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehiding place; cache
verb
- 1
first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mouvoir
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of musser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Passage étroit dans une haie. 2. Tout passage étroit. 3. Cachette. 4. Lieu de rendez-vous.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of musse
- musses plural
- mussée feminine
- mussés masculine plural
- mussées feminine plural
- muche
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is musse in French?
musse appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).