vermessen
\fɛɐ̯ˈmɛsn̩\
The verdict
“vermessen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Présomptueux, outrecuidant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vermessen · vermessen · French
vermessen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vermessen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛɐ̯ˈmɛsn̩\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vermessen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛɐ̯ˈmɛsn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Présomptueux, outrecuidant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vermessen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is vermessen, spelled V-E-R-M-E-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Présomptueux, outrecuidant.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.