message
\me.saʒ\
The verdict
“message” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #708
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charge ou commission de dire ou de porter quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-message · message · French
message · rank #708 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #708
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH dois
Nearest frequency peer: dois (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « message »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- celles
celles
99,297 corpus weight
- certain
certain
99,296 corpus weight
- dois
dois
99,294 corpus weight
- message
message
99,293 corpus weight
- position
position
99,292 corpus weight
- république
république
99,291 corpus weight
What this shows « message » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | message |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « message »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around message (IPA \me.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #708 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for message, with forms such as "emssage", "mesage", and "mesasge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "messe", "messie", "métrage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 message, spelled M-E-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Charge ou commission de dire ou de porter quelque chose.
- 2Chose que le messager est chargé de dire ou de porter.
- 3Communication officielle faite par le chef de l’État au pouvoir législatif.
- 4Information publicitaire.
- 5Pâtre qui reste constamment avec les troupeaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how message appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous vous êtes chargé d’un mauvais, d’un fâcheux message.
Il s’est bien acquitté de son message.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssage
- mesage
- mesasge
- messaeg
- messagge
- messgae
- mmessage
- msesage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of message - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).