Mesmer
The verdict
“Mesmer” is uncommon French (frequency #73,353 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,353
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Franz-Anton Mesmer, médecin badois, fondateur de la théorie du magnétisme animal, aussi connue sous le nom de mesmérisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesmer · Mesmer · French
Mesmer · rank #73,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,353
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menotter
Nearest frequency peer: menotter (-2 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 « Mesmer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mechanical
mechanical
26,652 corpus weight
- menotter
menotter
26,650 corpus weight
- Mesmer
Mesmer
26,648 corpus weight
- miao
miao
26,646 corpus weight
- Micronésie
Micronésie
26,645 corpus weight
- miele
miele
26,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mesmer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mesmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mesmer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mesmer is uncommon French at frequency #73,353 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Franz-Anton Mesmer, médecin badois, fondateur de la théorie du magnétisme animal, aussi connue sous le nom de mesmérisme.".
Mesmer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Mesmer, spelled M-E-S-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Franz-Anton Mesmer, médecin badois, fondateur de la théorie du magnétisme animal, aussi connue sous le nom de mesmérisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mesmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon Mesmer, le magnétisme animal est la capacité de tout homme à guérir son prochain grâce à un « fluide naturel » dont le magnétiseur serait la source, et qu'il diffuserait grâce à des « passes », dites « passes mesmériennes », sur tout le corps.
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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