musc
French, noun/mysk/
musc is a French masculine noun meaning “musk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matière brune odorante que contient une poche située dans le ventre de certains cervidés d’Asie centrale”.
What does musc mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemusk
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matière brune odorante que contient une poche située dans le ventre de certains cervidés d’Asie centrale. 2. Parfum préparé avec cette substance. 3. Cervidé qui habite les pentes les plus raides et sauvages des hauts sommets de l'Asie.
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 musc
- muscs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musc?
- /mysk/
- \mysk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to musc
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is musc in French?
musc appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).