mesure
\mə.zyʁ\
The verdict
“mesure” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #520 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #520
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dimension.
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 | 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) |
Where “mesure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mesure is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesure, with forms such as "emsure", "mesrue", and "messure". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mûre", "meur", "meurt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mesure, spelled M-E-S-U-R-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emsure,mesrue,messure,mesuer,mesurre,meusre,mmesure,mseure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mesure - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “mesure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-S-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mə.zyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “mûre” - see the side-by-side comparison. mesure vs mûre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.