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massé

noun

massé is spelled M-A-S-S-É: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, massé means “A stroke made with the cue held vertically that causes a billiard ball to move in an arc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of massé is massés.

How many letters and syllables are in massé?

Letters5: M-A-S-S-É
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is massé?

Massé appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of massé

  • massés plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does massé mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A stroke made with the cue held vertically that causes a billiard ball to move in an arc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does massé come from?

From French massé.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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