mesdames
\me.dam\
The verdict
“mesdames” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,887
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de madame.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesdames · mesdames · French
mesdames · rank #8,887 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,887
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milles
Nearest frequency peer: milles (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mesdames »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Marianne
Marianne
91,117 corpus weight
- matelas
matelas
91,116 corpus weight
- mesdames
mesdames
91,114 corpus weight
- milles
milles
91,113 corpus weight
- miracles
miracles
91,112 corpus weight
- missile
missile
91,111 corpus weight
What this shows « mesdames » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mesdames |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.dam\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mesdames »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mesdames (IPA \me.dam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,887 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de madame.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesdames, with forms such as "emsdames", "medsames", and "mesadmes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "messages", "Mmes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mesdames, spelled M-E-S-D-A-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de madame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mesdames appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hello les messieurs et les mesdames!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emsdames
- medsames
- mesadmes
- mesdaems
- mesdamess
- mesdammes
- mesdamse
- mesddames
- mesdmaes
- messdames
- mmesdames
- msedames
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mesdames - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).