prendre ses mesures

verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

prendre ses mesures is aFrenchverb. It means: Employer des moyens pour faire réussir une chose.

Key facts for prendre ses mesures
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre ses mesures
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre ses mesures is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre ses mesures is 19 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Employer des moyens pour faire réussir une chose.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre ses mesures in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 prendre ses mesures, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-E-S- -M-E-S-U-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Employer des moyens pour faire réussir une chose.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre ses mesures"?
"prendre ses mesures" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-E-S- -M-E-S-U-R-E-S.
What does "prendre ses mesures" mean?
As a verb, "prendre ses mesures" means: Employer des moyens pour faire réussir une chose.
What language does "prendre ses mesures" come from?
"prendre ses mesures" 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.