mesurer

/\mə.zy.ʁe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,780

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

mesurer is aFrenchverb. It means: Chercher à connaître, ou déterminer une quantité par le moyen d’une mesure. Pronounced \mə.zy.ʁe\. It ranks #4,780 in French word frequency. Often confused with meure and mesures.

Key facts for mesurer
PropertyValue
Headwordmesurer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mə.zy.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,780
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mesurer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.zy.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,780 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesurer, with forms such as "emsurer", "mesruer", and "messurer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "meure", "mesures", "mesure", 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 mesurer, spelled M-E-S-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chercher à connaître, ou déterminer une quantité par le moyen d’une mesure.
  2. 2
    Proportionner.
  3. 3
    Régler avec sagesse, avec circonspection.
  4. 4
    Avoir comme mesure.
  5. 5
    Lutter contre ; se comparer à ; vouloir s’égaler à.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emsurer,mesruer,messurer,mesuerr,mesurerr,mesurrer,meusrer,mmesurer,mseurer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mesurer

Misspelling Variants of "mesurer"

emsurer7mesruer7messurer8mesuerr7mesurerr8mesurrer8meusrer7mmesurer8
Misspelling Variants of "mesurer"

Frequency rank: #4,780 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mesurer"?
"mesurer" is spelled M-E-S-U-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mə.zy.ʁe\.
What does "mesurer" mean?
As a verb, "mesurer" means: Chercher à connaître, ou déterminer une quantité par le moyen d’une mesure.
What words are commonly confused with "mesurer"?
"mesurer" is commonly confused with "meure", "mesures", "mesure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mesurer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mesurer" is \mə.zy.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mesurer" come from?
"mesurer" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.