mes
\mɛ\
The verdict
“mes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #139) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #139
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mon, ma. Qui sont à moi, dans le cas d’un seul possesseur et de plusieurs objets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mes · mes · French
mes · rank #139 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #139
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH français
Nearest frequency peer: français (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mes »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- grand
grand
99,865 corpus weight
- pays
pays
99,864 corpus weight
- français
français
99,863 corpus weight
- mes
mes
99,862 corpus weight
- beaucoup
beaucoup
99,861 corpus weight
- jour
jour
99,860 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mes » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \mɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mes »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mes is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "mi", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \mɛ\. Frequency #139 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de mon, ma. Qui sont à moi, dans le cas d’un seul possesseur et de plusieurs objets.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mes, spelled M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mon, ma. Qui sont à moi, dans le cas d’un seul possesseur et de plusieurs objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je sentais l’intensité du courant grandir et à mesure ma gorge, mes mâchoires, tous les muscles de mon visage, jusqu’à mes paupières se contracter dans une crispation de plus en plus douloureuse.
Eu égard à mon activité, la seule majusculisation de mes nom et prénom suffirait. DICK LAPELOUSE. Pas de chichi, pas de truc emberlificoté […].
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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