mesure
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#520
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mesure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dimension. Pronounced \mə.zyʁ\. It ranks #520 in French word frequency. Often confused with mûre and meur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mesure is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.zyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #520 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mesure, with forms such as "emsure", "mesrue", and "messure". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mûre", "meur", "meurt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mesure, spelled M-E-S-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dimension.
- 2Étalon, grandeur prise comme terme de comparaison pour évaluer la durée, l’étendue, la quantité, le poids, etc.
- 3Volume.
- 4Action d’évaluer une grandeur.
- 5Processus consistant à obtenir expérimentalement une ou plusieurs valeurs que l’on peut raisonnablement attribuer à une grandeur : mesurage.
- 6Nombre de pieds ou de syllabes, propres à chaque espèce de vers.
- 7Rythme divisant la durée d’une phrase musicale.
- 8Chacune des parties égales d’une phrase musicale, division des portées dans une partition de durée égale aux autres divisions et délimitée par deux barres de mesures.
- 9Décision.
- 10Modération, retenue, sentiment et observation des bienséances.
- 11Une base de comparaison.
- 12Précaution ; disposition ; moyen qu’on prend pour arriver au but qu’on se propose.
- 13Bornes, limites, capacité.
- 14Distance convenable pour parer ou pour porter un coup.
- 15Application qui associe une grandeur numérique à certains sous-ensembles d'un ensemble donné, généralisant la notion de longueur, aire et volume.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emsure,mesrue,messure,mesuer,mesurre,meusre,mmesure,mseure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mesure
Misspelling Variants of "mesure"
Frequency rank: #520 in French
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