Which to use
“mesurer” is a verb and “mesures” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,780
- “mesurer” frequency rank
- #1,066
- “mesures” frequency rank
- 5846
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mesurer | mesures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Chercher à connaître, ou déterminer une quantité par le moyen d’une mesure. | Pluriel de mesure. |
Where the eye mixes mesurer and mesures
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. mesurer and mesures follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses mesurer with mesures
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mesurer is \mə.zy.ʁe\ while mesures is \mə.zyʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - r in “mesurer” becomes s in “mesures”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5846, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mesurer is recorded at frequency rank #4,780, classified as averb, pronounced \mə.zy.ʁe\. 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 5846, this pair ranks #427,910 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mesurer vs mesures
Shared letters: emrsu. Private to "mesurer": -. Private to "mesures": -.
"mesurer" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "mesures" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mesurer" and "mesures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "mesurer" vs "mesures" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "mesurer" and "mesures" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "mesurer" 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 #427,910 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mesurer" and "mesures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "messier vs mesurer". 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 #427,910 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.