Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs
\me.dam med.mwa.zɛl me.sjø\
The verdict
“Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 35
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adresse polie à un auditoire dans un discours écrit ou oral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesdames-mesdemoiselles- · Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs · French
Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 35 letters
- VOW-13 13 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \me.dam med.mwa.zɛl me.sjø\ |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed \me.dam med.mwa.zɛl me.sjø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adresse polie à un auditoire dans un discours écrit ou oral.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs, spelled M-E-S-D-A-M-E-S-,- -M-E-S-D-E-M-O-I-S-E-L-L-E-S-,- -M-E-S-S-I-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Adresse polie à un auditoire dans un discours écrit ou oral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh bien, Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs pour toucher du doigt le centre de l’épicentre de la diversité musicale, mon amie Blanche et moi-même allons vous interpréter le deuxième mouvement de Il Passionnato de Nino Gorgonzola.
Mesdames, mesdemoiselles, messieurs, bonsoir. Bienvenue dans la Lettre des Chats.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.