mutisme

\my.tism\

/\my.tism\/ noun

The verdict

“mutisme” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,794. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,794
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui est muet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mutisme · mutisme · French

mutisme · rank #33,794 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,794
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mustafa

Nearest frequency peer: Mustafa (-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 « mutisme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mutisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mutisme vs mutilé
57% similar
mutisme vs matisse
71% similar
mutisme vs métisse
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mutisme
PropertyValue
Headwordmutisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.tism\
Letters7
Frequency rank#33,794
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mutisme »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mutismese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Mustafa » (#33,793), « Mx » (#33,795), « muqueuse » (#33,792). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mutisme » est au #33,794. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around mutisme (IPA \my.tism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,794 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mutisme, with forms such as "mmutisme", "mtuisme", and "muitsme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mutilé", "matisse", "métisse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mutisme, spelled M-U-T-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de celui qui est muet.
  2. 2
    Fait de ne pas parler, souvent pour exprimer un retrait, un rejet, un entêtement, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mutisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le mutisme est ordinairement une suite de la surdité de naissance.
  2. Je ne parle pas ici du mutisme causé par la destruction des nerfs récurrents ou par une attaque d’apoplexie : il n’est alors qu’un symptôme. Je passerai également sous silence le mutisme causé par les divers empoisonnements, parce que j’aurai à m’en occuper plus tard. Lorsque le mutisme est essentiellement nerveux, il constitue le seul symptôme de l’affec…

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmutisme
  • mtuisme
  • muitsme
  • mutimse
  • mutisem
  • mutismme
  • mutissme
  • mutsime
  • muttisme
  • umtisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mutisme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

mmutisme1mtuisme2muitsme2mutimse2mutisem2mutismme1mutissme1mutsime2
Edit distance from "mutisme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mutisme"?
"mutisme" is spelled M-U-T-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \my.tism\.
What does "mutisme" mean?
As a noun, "mutisme" means: État de celui qui est muet.
What words are commonly confused with "mutisme"?
"mutisme" is commonly confused with "mutilé", "matisse", "métisse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mutisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mutisme" is \my.tism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mutisme" come from?
"mutisme" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mutisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list