mesme
The verdict
“mesme” is uncommon French (frequency #59,443 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,443
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesme · mesme · French
mesme · rank #59,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,443
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merc
Nearest frequency peer: merc (-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 « mesme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Meister
Meister
40,561 corpus weight
- memoria
memoria
40,560 corpus weight
- merc
merc
40,559 corpus weight
- mesme
mesme
40,558 corpus weight
- Messins
Messins
40,557 corpus weight
- meuniers
meuniers
40,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesme is uncommon French at frequency #59,443 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de même.".
mesme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mesme, spelled M-E-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mesme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les autres font aussi trop froids : ils n’ont point mesme dans les grandes affaires de cette émotion necessaire pour ébranler l’esprit des Juges, qui ne se laissent amouvoir dans les grands sujets, que par de grands mouvemens.
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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