Which to use
“musées” and “muses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,369
- “musées” frequency rank
- #31,145
- “muses” frequency rank
- 36514
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | musées | muses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fête destinée à honorer les Muses, et ayant lieu à Thespies en Grèce. | Pluriel de muse. |
Where the eye mixes musées and muses
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. musées runs 6 letters (CVCVVC) against muses's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between musées and muses
A purely visual mix-up. musées (\my.ze\) and muses (\myz\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36514, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
musées is recorded at frequency rank #5,369, classified as anoun, pronounced \my.ze\. muses is at rank #31,145, tagged as anoun, pronounced \myz\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 36514, this pair ranks #269,064 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of musées vs muses
Shared letters: emsu. Private to "musées": é. Private to "muses": -.
"musées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "muses" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- muses ← mmuses · msues · muess · musess · musses · umses
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "musées" for "muses" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "musées" or "muses" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "musées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "muses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #269,064 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "musées" and "muses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "muer vs muses". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #269,064 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.