Which to use
“museler” and “mutiler” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,383
- “museler” frequency rank
- #40,385
- “mutiler” frequency rank
- 80768
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | museler | mutiler |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Garnir d’une muselière la gueule d’un animal. | Retrancher un membre ou quelque autre partie extérieure du corps. |
Where the eye mixes museler and mutiler
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. museler and mutiler follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses museler with mutiler
A purely visual mix-up. museler (\my.zle\) and mutiler (\my.ti.le\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80768, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
museler is recorded at frequency rank #40,383, classified as averb, pronounced \my.zle\. mutiler is at rank #40,385, tagged as averb, pronounced \my.ti.le\.
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 80768, this pair ranks #20,183 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of museler vs mutiler
Shared letters: elmru. Private to "museler": s. Private to "mutiler": it.
"museler" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "mutiler" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "museler" and "mutiler" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "museler" or "mutiler" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "museler" and "mutiler" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "museler" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mutiler" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #20,183 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "museler" and "mutiler" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moutier vs mutiler". 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 #20,183 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.