mésange
\me.zɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“mésange” is uncommon French (frequency #53,508 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,508
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit oiseau passereau, actif, au bec court, de forme assez trapue, qui est remarquable par son plumage varié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesange · mésange · French
mésange · rank #53,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,508
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méprenez
Nearest frequency peer: méprenez (-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 « mésange »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Murillo
Murillo
46,496 corpus weight
- mélomane
mélomane
46,495 corpus weight
- méprenez
méprenez
46,494 corpus weight
- mésange
mésange
46,493 corpus weight
- métayer
métayer
46,492 corpus weight
- nasse
nasse
46,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mésange » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mésange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.zɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mésange » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mésange is uncommon French at frequency #53,508 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.zɑ̃ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit oiseau passereau, actif, au bec court, de forme assez trapue, qui est remarquable par son plumage varié.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mésange in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mésange, spelled M-É-S-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Petit oiseau passereau, actif, au bec court, de forme assez trapue, qui est remarquable par son plumage varié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mésange appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un grondement errait dans les sapins, des mésanges chantaient, on ne savait pas où ; […].
Au-dessus de la lucarne une mésange, réveillée en sursaut, oubliant que ses œufs n’étaient pas encore pondus, appelait en sanglotant ses petits.
Synonyms
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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