masse

/\mas\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,528

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

masse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Amas de plusieurs parties qui font corps ensemble. Pronounced \mas\. It ranks #1,528 in French word frequency. Often confused with mise and miss.

Key facts for masse
PropertyValue
Headwordmasse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mas\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,528
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of masse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for masse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mas\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,528 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for masse, with forms such as "amsse", "mase", and "mases". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mise", "miss", "mate", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is masse, spelled M-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Amas de plusieurs parties qui font corps ensemble.
  2. 2
    Quantité de matière.
  3. 3
    Quantité de matière d’un corps.
  4. 4
    Quantité considérable.
  5. 5
    Corps informe ou volumineux.
  6. 6
    Totalité d’une chose dont les parties sont de même nature.
  7. 7
    Groupe de personnes.
  8. 8
    Les foules populaires.
  9. 9
    Ensemble d’un ouvrage d’architecture considéré sous le rapport des proportions.
  10. 10
    Réunion de plusieurs parties considérées comme ne faisant qu’un tout.
  11. 11
    Lits de pierre d’une carrière.
  12. 12
    Fonds d’argent d’une succession, d’une société ou ce qu’on met au jeu.
  13. 13
    Argent mis en commun dans les ateliers d’art, de beaux-arts, pour l’achat de fournitures.
  14. 14
    Somme formée par les retenues faites sur la paye de chaque soldat, ou allouée, par abonnement, pour une dépense spéciale.
  15. 15
    Pécule que se constitue un prisonnier et qui lui est remis à sa libération.
  16. 16
    Partie d’une installation électrique reliée à la structure non-électrique.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amsse,mase,mases,mmasse,msase

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for masse

Misspelling Variants of "masse"

amsse5mase4mases5mmasse6msase5
Misspelling Variants of "masse"

Frequency rank: #1,528 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "masse"?
"masse" is spelled M-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mas\.
What does "masse" mean?
As a noun, "masse" means: Amas de plusieurs parties qui font corps ensemble.
What words are commonly confused with "masse"?
"masse" is commonly confused with "mise", "miss", "mate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "masse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "masse" is \mas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "masse" come from?
"masse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.