Mmes
\me.dam\
The verdict
“Mmes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,466) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,466
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Mᵐᵉ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mmes · Mmes · French
Mmes · rank #42,466 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,466
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mimosas
Nearest frequency peer: mimosas (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Mmes »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- milady
milady
57,538 corpus weight
- militari
militari
57,537 corpus weight
- mimosas
mimosas
57,536 corpus weight
- Mmes
Mmes
57,535 corpus weight
- moderniste
moderniste
57,534 corpus weight
- monoparenta…
monoparentales
57,532 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Mmes » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Mmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.dam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Mmes »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mmes is neighbouring look-alikes ("ms", "mue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \me.dam\. Frequency #42,466 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de Mᵐᵉ.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mmes, including "mems" and "mmse". 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, "ms", "mue", "mmm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Mmes, spelled M-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Mᵐᵉ.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mems
- mmse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mmes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Mmes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).