massu
/ˈmɑsːu/
The verdict
“massu” is uncommon French (frequency #70,821 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,821
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du duel du présent de l’impératif de massit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massu · massu · French
massu · rank #70,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,821
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massée
Nearest frequency peer: massée (+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 « massu »
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 « massu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈmɑsːu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « massu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
massu is uncommon French at frequency #70,821 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈmɑsːu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du duel du présent de l’impératif de massit.".
massu has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is massu, spelled M-A-S-S-U.
Definition
- 1Première personne du duel du présent de l’impératif de massit.
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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