messier
\me.sje\
The verdict
“messier” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,895
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garde préposé à la sureté des récoltes, à la garde des fruits quand ils commencent à murir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messier · messier · French
messier · rank #39,895 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,895
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mathurin
Nearest frequency peer: mathurin (-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 « messier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mammaire
mammaire
60,110 corpus weight
- Manfred
Manfred
60,109 corpus weight
- manigances
manigances
60,108 corpus weight
- mathurin
mathurin
60,107 corpus weight
- messier
messier
60,106 corpus weight
- mijoter
mijoter
60,105 corpus weight
What this shows « messier » 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 | messier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around messier (IPA \me.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,895 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for messier, with forms such as "emssier", "mesier", and "mesiser". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "métier", "mesurer", "meunier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is messier, spelled M-E-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garde préposé à la sureté des récoltes, à la garde des fruits quand ils commencent à murir.
- 2Titre d’un ancien dignitaire de l’église de Cambrai, chargé de faire garder les blés du chapitre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how messier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout, ou presque, le messier, garde des moissons, est nécessaire.
Cet enfant a été surpris cueillant des raisins par les messiers.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssier
- mesier
- mesiser
- messeir
- messierr
- mmessier
- msesier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messier - 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 "messier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).