masure
\ma.zyʁ\
The verdict
“masure” is uncommon French (frequency #62,436 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,436
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitation misérable et qui tombe en ruines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masure · masure · French
masure · rank #62,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,436
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marsa
Nearest frequency peer: Marsa (-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 « masure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marquages
marquages
37,568 corpus weight
- marquaient
marquaient
37,567 corpus weight
- Marsa
Marsa
37,566 corpus weight
- masure
masure
37,565 corpus weight
- Matha
Matha
37,564 corpus weight
- Maximilian
Maximilian
37,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « masure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « masure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
masure is uncommon French at frequency #62,436 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.zyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitation misérable et qui tombe en ruines.".
masure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is masure, spelled M-A-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Habitation misérable et qui tombe en ruines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how masure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; puis l’on aperçoit une masure perdue dans les arbres, c’est l’auberge des Mulets ; ….
Marie. – Cela est trop cruel d’avoir vécu dans un palais de fées, où murmuraient les cantiques des anges, de s’y être endormie, bercée par son fils, et de se réveiller dans une masure ensanglantée, pleine de débris d’orgie et de restes humains, dans les bras d’un spectre hideux qui vous tue en vous appelant encore du nom de mère.
This word in other languages
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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