messe
\mɛs\
The verdict
“messe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,478. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,478
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rite catholique qui commémore la mort de Jésus-Christ, et qui se fait par le ministère du prêtre devant un autel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messe · messe · French
messe · rank #5,478 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,478
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matt
Nearest frequency peer: matt (-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 « messe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Manchester
Manchester
94,526 corpus weight
- manteau
manteau
94,525 corpus weight
- matt
matt
94,524 corpus weight
- messe
messe
94,523 corpus weight
- mixte
mixte
94,522 corpus weight
- moulin
moulin
94,521 corpus weight
What this shows « messe » 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 | messe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around messe (IPA \mɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,478 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for messe, with forms such as "emsse", "mese", and "meses". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mise", "mets", "miss", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is messe, spelled M-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Rite catholique qui commémore la mort de Jésus-Christ, et qui se fait par le ministère du prêtre devant un autel.
- 2Pièce de musique composée pour une grand-messe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how messe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un vol avec effraction a été commis au préjudice de M. Alph. Recorda à Chennery, écart de Bayonville. Entre huit et neuf heures du matin, durant la messe, un malfaiteur s’est introduit dans sa maison en brisant une vitre et a soustrait une somme d'environ huit francs.
Les curés sont très violemment attaqués par lui et la famille Chagot est dénoncée parce qu’elle force les mineurs de Montceau à aller à la messe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emsse
- mese
- meses
- mmesse
- msese
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messe - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).