Which to use
“mesure” and “mesures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #520
- “mesure” frequency rank
- #1,066
- “mesures” frequency rank
- 1586
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mesure | mesures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Dimension. | Pluriel de mesure. |
Same sound, different letters: mesure vs mesures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: mesure vs mesures
This is the hard kind. mesure and mesures are pronounced identically (\mə.zyʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “mesure” sits inside “mesures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1586, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mesure is recorded at frequency rank #520, classified as anoun, pronounced \mə.zyʁ\. mesures is at rank #1,066, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mə.zyʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 1586, this pair ranks #437,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mesure vs mesures
Shared letters: emrsu. Private to "mesure": -. Private to "mesures": -.
"mesure" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "mesures" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mesure" and "mesures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "mesure" or "mesures" show up more?
After this comparison
"mesure" and "mesures" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "mesure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mesures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #437,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mesure" and "mesures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mesure vs meutre". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #437,782 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.