pois musqué
\pwa mys.ke\
The verdict
“pois musqué” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pois de senteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pois-musque · pois musqué · French
pois musqué · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pois musqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa mys.ke\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pois musqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pois musqué is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwa mys.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pois de senteur.".
pois musqué doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pois musqué, spelled P-O-I-S- -M-U-S-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Pois de senteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pois musqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
− Il le faudrait, en effet, magnanime Trésor des Fèves, si j'étais loin de ma frontière ; mais voilà un champ de pois musqués où je ne compte que des sujets fidèles, et dont l'approche est interdite à mon ennemi.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.