messire
\mɛ.siʁ\
The verdict
“messire” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,598
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre d’honneur qui se donnait anciennement, dans les actes, à des personnes de distinction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messire · messire · French
messire · rank #19,598 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,598
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meet
Nearest frequency peer: meet (-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 « messire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mathématici…
mathématicien
80,407 corpus weight
- meet
meet
80,404 corpus weight
- messire
messire
80,403 corpus weight
- Meurthe
Meurthe
80,402 corpus weight
- migraine
migraine
80,401 corpus weight
- mill
mill
80,399 corpus weight
What this shows « messire » 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 | messire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around messire (IPA \mɛ.siʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,598 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Titre d’honneur qui se donnait anciennement, dans les actes, à des personnes de distinction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for messire, with forms such as "emssire", "mesire", and "mesisre". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "mesure", "mestre", "missile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is messire, spelled M-E-S-S-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Titre d’honneur qui se donnait anciennement, dans les actes, à des personnes de distinction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how messire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Messire Goupil, vaguement étourdi par quelque plomb qui lui avait meurtri la caboche, se réveillait en effet fort opportunément […]
Messire, messire, messire, un sarrasin dans une charriote du diable ! C'est tout ferré, y'a point d'boeuf pour tirer !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssire
- mesire
- mesisre
- messirre
- messrie
- mmessire
- msesire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messire - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).