mesure

/\mə.zyʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for mesure
PropertyValue
Headwordmesure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mə.zyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#520
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mesure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Dimension.
  2. 2
    Étalon, grandeur prise comme terme de comparaison pour évaluer la durée, l’étendue, la quantité, le poids, etc.
  3. 3
    Volume.
  4. 4
    Action d’évaluer une grandeur.
  5. 5
    Processus consistant à obtenir expérimentalement une ou plusieurs valeurs que l’on peut raisonnablement attribuer à une grandeur : mesurage.
  6. 6
    Nombre de pieds ou de syllabes, propres à chaque espèce de vers.
  7. 7
    Rythme divisant la durée d’une phrase musicale.
  8. 8
    Chacune 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.
  9. 9
    Décision.
  10. 10
    Modération, retenue, sentiment et observation des bienséances.
  11. 11
    Une base de comparaison.
  12. 12
    Précaution ; disposition ; moyen qu’on prend pour arriver au but qu’on se propose.
  13. 13
    Bornes, limites, capacité.
  14. 14
    Distance convenable pour parer ou pour porter un coup.
  15. 15
    Application qui associe une grandeur numérique à certains sous-ensembles d'un ensemble donné, généralisant la notion de longueur, aire et volume.

Synonyms

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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"

emsure6mesrue6messure7mesuer6mesurre7meusre6mmesure7mseure6
Misspelling Variants of "mesure"

Frequency rank: #520 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mesure"?
"mesure" is spelled M-E-S-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mə.zyʁ\.
What does "mesure" mean?
As a noun, "mesure" means: Dimension.
What words are commonly confused with "mesure"?
"mesure" is commonly confused with "mûre", "meur", "meurt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mesure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mesure" is \mə.zyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mesure" come from?
"mesure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.