messa
\ˈmes.sa\
The verdict
“messa” is uncommon French (frequency #85,013 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,013
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Messe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messa · messa · French
messa · rank #85,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,013
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merlu
Nearest frequency peer: merlu (-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 « messa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menotte
menotte
14,990 corpus weight
- merlu
merlu
14,989 corpus weight
- messa
messa
14,988 corpus weight
- Metellus
Metellus
14,987 corpus weight
- metric
metric
14,986 corpus weight
- MIAGE
MIAGE
14,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « messa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | messa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmes.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « messa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
messa is uncommon French at frequency #85,013 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmes.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Messe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for messa, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 messa, spelled M-E-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Messe.
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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