messenger
\ˈmɛ.sɪn.dʒəɹ\
The verdict
“messenger” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,255
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Messager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messenger · messenger · French
messenger · rank #18,255 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,255
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menteurs
Nearest frequency peer: menteurs (-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 « messenger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maxwell
maxwell
81,749 corpus weight
- menteurs
menteurs
81,747 corpus weight
- messenger
messenger
81,746 corpus weight
- mesurant
mesurant
81,745 corpus weight
- mind
mind
81,744 corpus weight
- moquent
moquent
81,743 corpus weight
What this shows « messenger » 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 | messenger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɛ.sɪn.dʒəɹ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messenger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around messenger (IPA \ˈmɛ.sɪn.dʒəɹ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,255 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Messager.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for messenger, with forms such as "emssenger", "mesenger", and "mesesnger". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "messager", "mensonger", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is messenger, spelled M-E-S-S-E-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Messager.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssenger
- mesenger
- mesesnger
- messegner
- messenegr
- messengerr
- messengger
- messengre
- messennger
- messneger
- mmessenger
- msesenger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messenger - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "messenger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).