messires
\me.siʁ\
The verdict
“messires” is uncommon French (frequency #84,069 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,069
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de messire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messires · messires · French
messires · rank #84,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,069
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messaline
Nearest frequency peer: messaline (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « messires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menottés
menottés
15,935 corpus weight
- merina
merina
15,934 corpus weight
- messaline
messaline
15,933 corpus weight
- messires
messires
15,932 corpus weight
- minerals
minerals
15,931 corpus weight
- Moirans
Moirans
15,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « messires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | messires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « messires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
messires is uncommon French at frequency #84,069 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de messire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for messires in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is messires, spelled M-E-S-S-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de messire.
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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