sur mesure

/\syʁ mə.zyʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sur mesure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est fait de façon personnalisée. Pronounced \syʁ mə.zyʁ\.

Key facts for sur mesure
PropertyValue
Headwordsur mesure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syʁ mə.zyʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sur mesure is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ mə.zyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for sur mesure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 sur mesure, spelled S-U-R- -M-E-S-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui est fait de façon personnalisée.
  2. 2
    Adapté pour la circonstance, cousu main.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sur mesure"?
"sur mesure" is spelled S-U-R- -M-E-S-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ mə.zyʁ\.
What does "sur mesure" mean?
As a noun, "sur mesure" means: Ce qui est fait de façon personnalisée.
How do you pronounce "sur mesure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sur mesure" is \syʁ mə.zyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sur mesure" come from?
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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.