messages
\me.saʒ\
The verdict
“messages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,134
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de message.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messages · messages · French
messages · rank #2,134 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,134
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH littérature
Nearest frequency peer: littérature (-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 « messages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- James
James
97,870 corpus weight
- K
K
97,869 corpus weight
- littérature
littérature
97,868 corpus weight
- messages
messages
97,867 corpus weight
- min
min
97,866 corpus weight
- médecins
médecins
97,865 corpus weight
What this shows « messages » 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 | messages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around messages (IPA \me.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,134 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de message.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for messages, with forms such as "emssages", "mesages", and "mesasges". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "messes", "métrages", "message", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 messages, spelled M-E-S-S-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de message.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how messages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Préprogrammer des messages, obtenir un GIF, partager automatiquement ses dernières photos…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssages
- mesages
- mesasges
- messaegs
- messagess
- messagges
- messagse
- messgaes
- mmessages
- msesages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messages - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).