masseur
\ma.sœʁ\
The verdict
“masseur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,900
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui masse les membres du corps pour les assouplir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masseur · masseur · French
masseur · rank #32,900 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,900
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maso
Nearest frequency peer: maso (-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 « masseur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Martigues
Martigues
67,104 corpus weight
- martinet
martinet
67,103 corpus weight
- maso
maso
67,102 corpus weight
- masseur
masseur
67,101 corpus weight
- Masséna
Masséna
67,100 corpus weight
- Mauriac
Mauriac
67,099 corpus weight
What this shows « masseur » 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 | masseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masseur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around masseur (IPA \ma.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,900 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui masse les membres du corps pour les assouplir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for masseur, with forms such as "amsseur", "masesur", and "maseur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "master", "massue", "mayeur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 masseur, spelled M-A-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui masse les membres du corps pour les assouplir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how masseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le masseur insiste davantage sur les régions musculaires qui ont été sollicitées au cours des efforts.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsseur
- masesur
- maseur
- masseru
- masseurr
- massuer
- mmasseur
- msaseur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masseur - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).