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musca

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables
mus-ca
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.

noun

Ellipsis of musca volitans.

name

Initialism of Mexico-United States–Canada–Agreement.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin musca (“a fly”). Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, between 1595 and 1597. Doublet of mouche.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

muscae (plural)

Derived Forms

Muscae musciform

Synonyms

NAFTA 2.0 USMCA CUSMA

Questions

What does musca mean?
An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.
Where does musca come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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