rat musqué
\ʁa mys.ke\
The verdict
“rat musqué” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gros rongeur trapu amphibie dont la queue écailleuse est comprimée latéralement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rat musqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa mys.ke\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rat musqué” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rat musqué is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa mys.ke\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gros rongeur trapu amphibie dont la queue écailleuse est comprimée latéralement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rat musqué, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rat musqué, spelled R-A-T- -M-U-S-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Gros rongeur trapu amphibie dont la queue écailleuse est comprimée latéralement.
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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.
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Using “rat musqué”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-T- -M-U-S-Q-U-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁa mys.ke\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.