mes
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#139
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mes is aFrenchdet. It means: Pluriel de mon, ma. Qui sont à moi, dans le cas d’un seul possesseur et de plusieurs objets. Pronounced \mɛ\. It ranks #139 in French word frequency. Often confused with mm and mi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Det |
| IPA | \mɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mes is 3 letters long, classified as adet, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #139 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de mon, ma. Qui sont à moi, dans le cas d’un seul possesseur et de plusieurs objets.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mes, spelled M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mon, ma. Qui sont à moi, dans le cas d’un seul possesseur et de plusieurs objets.
Frequency rank: #139 in French
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