massée
\ma.se\
The verdict
“massée” is uncommon French (frequency #70,822 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,822
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de masser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massee · massée · French
massée · rank #70,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,822
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massu
Nearest frequency peer: massu (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « massée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mankind
mankind
29,184 corpus weight
- Marburg
Marburg
29,183 corpus weight
- marcherai
marcherai
29,182 corpus weight
- massu
massu
29,180 corpus weight
- massée
massée
29,179 corpus weight
- MCM
MCM
29,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « massée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ma.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « massée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
massée is uncommon French at frequency #70,822 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ma.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de masser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for massée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 massée, spelled M-A-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de masser.
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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