masse
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Amas de plusieurs parties qui font corps ensemble.
- 2Quantité de matière.
- 3Quantité de matière d’un corps.
- 4Quantité considérable.
- 5Corps informe ou volumineux.
- 6Totalité d’une chose dont les parties sont de même nature.
- 7Groupe de personnes.
- 8Les foules populaires.
- 9Ensemble d’un ouvrage d’architecture considéré sous le rapport des proportions.
- 10Réunion de plusieurs parties considérées comme ne faisant qu’un tout.
- 11Lits de pierre d’une carrière.
- 12Fonds d’argent d’une succession, d’une société ou ce qu’on met au jeu.
- 13Argent mis en commun dans les ateliers d’art, de beaux-arts, pour l’achat de fournitures.
- 14Somme formée par les retenues faites sur la paye de chaque soldat, ou allouée, par abonnement, pour une dépense spéciale.
- 15Pécule que se constitue un prisonnier et qui lui est remis à sa libération.
- 16Partie d’une installation électrique reliée à la structure non-électrique.
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,528 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: