mesurage
\mə.zy.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“mesurage” is uncommon French (frequency #78,634 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,634
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de mesurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesurage · mesurage · French
mesurage · rank #78,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,634
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menais
Nearest frequency peer: menais (-2 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 « mesurage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mayet
Mayet
21,371 corpus weight
- measures
measures
21,370 corpus weight
- menais
menais
21,369 corpus weight
- mesurage
mesurage
21,367 corpus weight
- Mikaela
Mikaela
21,364 corpus weight
- milligramme
milligramme
21,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesurage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesurage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.zy.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesurage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesurage is uncommon French at frequency #78,634 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mə.zy.ʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mesurage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mesurage, spelled M-E-S-U-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de mesurer.
- 2Ensemble d’opérations ayant pour but de déterminer une valeur d’une grandeur. — (terme et définition entérinés, entre autres, par l’AFNOR, l’ISO, le Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM), la Commission électrotechnique internationale (CEI) et l’Organisation internationale de métrologie légale (OIML))
- 3Procès-verbal de l’arpenteur auquel est ordinairement annexé le plan coté des lieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mesurage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est commode de se servir d’une pipette jaugeuse pour le mesurage rapide des 90ᶜᵐ³ d’eau.
Le sel était alors déchargé sous la surveillance d’un receveur et d’un « commis aux descentes » qui assistaient également à son mesurage et à son « empotassement » par masses séparées dans des salles situées à l’abri des inondations.
This word in other languages
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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