messieurs

\mɛ.sjø\

/\mɛ.sjø\/ noun

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The verdict

“messieurs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,884
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de monsieur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-messieurs · messieurs · French

messieurs · rank #2,884 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,884
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH lunettes

Nearest frequency peer: lunettes (-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 « messieurs »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « messieurs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

messieurs vs messier
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for messieurs
PropertyValue
Headwordmessieurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɛ.sjø\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,884
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messieurs »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.messieursse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « lunettes » (#2,883), « mine » (#2,885), « invités » (#2,882). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « messieurs » est au #2,884. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around messieurs (IPA \mɛ.sjø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,884 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for messieurs, with forms such as "emssieurs", "mesieurs", and "mesiseurs". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "messier", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is messieurs, spelled M-E-S-S-I-E-U-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de monsieur.
  2. 2
    Membres du parlement ou d’une autre cour souveraine.
  3. 3
    Membres d’une cour de justice, d’un tribunal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how messieurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Émile Blondet nous a fait une peinture des agréments d’une femme d’aujourd'hui ; mais au besoin cette femme qui minaude, qui parade, qui gazouille les idées de messieurs tels et tels, serait héroïque !
  2. Dominant leur émotion, elles firent mine de se re-partager entre la pièce et les messieurs qui les reluquaient dans la salle.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emssieurs
  • mesieurs
  • mesiseurs
  • messeiurs
  • messierus
  • messieurrs
  • messieurss
  • messieusr
  • messiuers
  • mmessieurs
  • msesieurs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messieurs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

emssieurs2mesieurs1mesiseurs2messeiurs2messierus2messieurrs1messieurss1messieusr2
Edit distance from "messieurs"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "messieurs"?
"messieurs" is spelled M-E-S-S-I-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.sjø\.
What does "messieurs" mean?
As a noun, "messieurs" means: Pluriel de monsieur.
What words are commonly confused with "messieurs"?
"messieurs" is commonly confused with "messier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "messieurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "messieurs" is \mɛ.sjø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "messieurs" come from?
"messieurs" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "messieurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

potentiel#2,891appareils#2,864anciennes#2,863suivantes#2,856

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

invités11 variantsdétruit11 variantsreprend11 variantstrouvait11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list