massages
\ma.saʒ\
The verdict
“massages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,603
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de massage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massages · massages · French
massages · rank #23,603 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,603
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mann
Nearest frequency peer: Mann (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « massages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malsaine
malsaine
76,401 corpus weight
- maltais
maltais
76,400 corpus weight
- Mann
Mann
76,399 corpus weight
- massages
massages
76,398 corpus weight
- maturation
maturation
76,397 corpus weight
- MBA
MBA
76,396 corpus weight
What this shows « massages » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « massages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around massages (IPA \ma.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,603 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de massage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for massages, with forms such as "amssages", "masages", and "masasges". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "masses", "message", "messages", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is massages, spelled M-A-S-S-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de massage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how massages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant les années 1920, les massages, par exemple, étaient ainsi plutôt une recommandation destinée à aider les organes à retrouver leurs fonctions jugées légitimes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amssages
- masages
- masasges
- massaegs
- massagess
- massagges
- massagse
- massgaes
- mmassages
- msasages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of massages - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).