Messine
\mɛ.sin\
The verdict
“Messine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,784
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville d’Italie de la région de Sicile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messine · Messine · French
Messine · rank #33,784 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,784
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mendy
Nearest frequency peer: Mendy (-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 « Messine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- martina
martina
66,220 corpus weight
- McKay
McKay
66,219 corpus weight
- Mendy
Mendy
66,218 corpus weight
- Messine
Messine
66,217 corpus weight
- Mickael
Mickael
66,216 corpus weight
- moduler
moduler
66,214 corpus weight
What this shows « Messine » 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 | Messine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.sin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Messine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Messine (IPA \mɛ.sin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,784 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Messine, with forms such as "emssine", "mesine", and "mesisne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "missile", "messire", "missive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Messine, spelled M-E-S-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville d’Italie de la région de Sicile.
- 2Province autour de cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Messine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sinistres aspects où je trouve un ressouvenir de ce que fut Messine détruite par un tremblement de terre !
Une lueur avait rougi le ciel au-dessus du Stromboli, et le navire s’était engagé dans le détroit, entre Messine aux maisons dorées comme des fruits et Reggia plus discrète et plus effacée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssine
- mesine
- mesisne
- messien
- messinne
- messnie
- mmessine
- msesine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Messine - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).