mesures
\mə.zyʁ\
The verdict
“mesures” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,066
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mesure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesures · mesures · French
mesures · rank #1,066 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,066
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH juge
Nearest frequency peer: juge (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mesures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fou
fou
98,938 corpus weight
- gestion
gestion
98,937 corpus weight
- juge
juge
98,936 corpus weight
- mesures
mesures
98,935 corpus weight
- Mme
Mme
98,934 corpus weight
- mètres
mètres
98,933 corpus weight
What this shows « mesures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mesures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mesures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mesures (IPA \mə.zyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,066 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mesure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesures, with forms such as "emsures", "mesrues", and "messures". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "meurs", "meure", "mûres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mesures, spelled M-E-S-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mesure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mesures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Néanmoins, il existe globalement fort peu d’éléments permettant d’apporter la preuve que ces mesures destinées à sécuritariser les migrations vers l’Europe ont été prises sur la base d’un lien explicite entre le terrorisme et les migrants irréguliers et nouveaux arrivants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emsures
- mesrues
- messures
- mesuers
- mesuress
- mesurres
- mesurse
- meusres
- mmesures
- mseures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mesures - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mesures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).