mesureur
\mə.zy.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“mesureur” is uncommon French (frequency #87,840 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,840
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert à mesurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesureur · mesureur · French
mesureur · rank #87,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,840
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messianisme
Nearest frequency peer: messianisme (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mesureur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menos
menos
12,164 corpus weight
- Merv
Merv
12,163 corpus weight
- messianisme
messianisme
12,162 corpus weight
- mesureur
mesureur
12,161 corpus weight
- meulière
meulière
12,160 corpus weight
- MEZ
MEZ
12,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesureur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesureur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mə.zy.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesureur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesureur is uncommon French at frequency #87,840 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mə.zy.ʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui sert à mesurer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mesureur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mesureur, spelled M-E-S-U-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à mesurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mesureur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
une cuiller mesureuse.
Il serait entré dans son lycée en brisant une vitre et les policiers ont retrouvé dans un des bâtiments un bec-benzène allumé et un verre mesureur en plastique contenant une substance liquide non identifiée.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).