messager
\mɛ.sa.ʒe\
The verdict
“messager” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,439
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui transmet des messages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messager · messager · French
messager · rank #11,439 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merlin
Nearest frequency peer: merlin (-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 « messager »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marvel
marvel
88,565 corpus weight
- mentionnés
mentionnés
88,564 corpus weight
- merlin
merlin
88,563 corpus weight
- messager
messager
88,562 corpus weight
- minière
minière
88,561 corpus weight
- Mitchell
Mitchell
88,560 corpus weight
What this shows « messager » 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 | messager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛ.sa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messager »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around messager (IPA \mɛ.sa.ʒe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,439 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui transmet des messages.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for messager, with forms such as "emssager", "mesager", and "mesasger". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "messier", "messages", "messenger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is messager, spelled M-E-S-S-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui transmet des messages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how messager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Acide ribonucléique messager, acide ribonucléique qui exerce une transmission de l'information génétique des gènes aux ribosomes où s'effectue la synthèse des protéines.
Le pigeon messager, pigeon voyageur qui transmet des messages.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssager
- mesager
- mesasger
- messaegr
- messagerr
- messagger
- messagre
- messgaer
- mmessager
- msesager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messager - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "messager", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).