massent
\mas\
The verdict
“massent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,050 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,050
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de masser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massent · massent · French
massent · rank #84,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,050
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mast
Nearest frequency peer: mast (+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 « massent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maracas
maracas
15,955 corpus weight
- marchèrent
marchèrent
15,954 corpus weight
- Marcillac
Marcillac
15,953 corpus weight
- massent
massent
15,951 corpus weight
- mast
mast
15,950 corpus weight
- Mather
Mather
15,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « massent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « massent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
massent is uncommon French at frequency #84,050 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for massent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is massent, spelled M-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de masser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de masser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how massent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C’est impossible de profiter avec cette quantité de personnes qui se massent dans les rues », résume Pierre-Marie, 39 ans.
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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