message

/\me.saʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#708

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

message is aFrenchnoun. It means: Charge ou commission de dire ou de porter quelque chose. Pronounced \me.saʒ\. It ranks #708 in French word frequency. Often confused with messe and messie.

Key facts for message
PropertyValue
Headwordmessage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.saʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#708
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of message in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for message is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.saʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #708 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for message, with forms such as "emssage", "mesage", and "mesasge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "messe", "messie", "métrage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is message, spelled M-E-S-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Charge ou commission de dire ou de porter quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Chose que le messager est chargé de dire ou de porter.
  3. 3
    Communication officielle faite par le chef de l’État au pouvoir législatif.
  4. 4
    Information publicitaire.
  5. 5
    Pâtre qui reste constamment avec les troupeaux.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emssage,mesage,mesasge,messaeg,messagge,messgae,mmessage,msesage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for message

Misspelling Variants of "message"

emssage7mesage6mesasge7messaeg7messagge8messgae7mmessage8msesage7
Misspelling Variants of "message"

Frequency rank: #708 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "message"?
"message" is spelled M-E-S-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.saʒ\.
What does "message" mean?
As a noun, "message" means: Charge ou commission de dire ou de porter quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "message"?
"message" is commonly confused with "messe", "messie", "métrage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "message"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "message" is \me.saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "message" come from?
"message" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.