massues
\ma.sy\
The verdict
“massues” is uncommon French (frequency #71,689 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,689
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de massue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massues · massues · French
massues · rank #71,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,689
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marsha
Nearest frequency peer: Marsha (-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 « massues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Marcella
Marcella
28,316 corpus weight
- Marinette
Marinette
28,315 corpus weight
- married
married
28,314 corpus weight
- Marsha
Marsha
28,313 corpus weight
- massues
massues
28,312 corpus weight
- Maubert
Maubert
28,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « massues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.sy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « massues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
massues is uncommon French at frequency #71,689 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.sy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de massue.".
massues doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is massues, spelled M-A-S-S-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de massue.
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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