allumage
\a.ly.maʒ\
The verdict
“allumage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,438
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’allumer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allumage · allumage · French
allumage · rank #19,438 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH albanais
Nearest frequency peer: albanais (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « allumage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accumulent
accumulent
80,566 corpus weight
- Ahmad
Ahmad
80,565 corpus weight
- albanais
albanais
80,564 corpus weight
- allumage
allumage
80,563 corpus weight
- allô
allô
80,562 corpus weight
- Amazonie
Amazonie
80,561 corpus weight
What this shows « allumage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allumage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allumage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around allumage (IPA \a.ly.maʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,438 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for allumage, with forms such as "allmuage", "alluamge", and "allumaeg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "allume", "allumée", "alliage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is allumage, spelled A-L-L-U-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’allumer.
- 2Inflammation du mélange gazeux combustible contenu dans la chambre à explosion.
- 3Opération donnant naissance à la combustion d’une poudre ou d’une charge propulsive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allumage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lucerne ou lanterne d’allumeur renferme , outre une lampe fixe , une petite lampe à main, qui tient lieu de bougie pour l’allumage des phares.
En 1738, Lardier, le premier fondeur des Forges, est renvoyé pour avoir raté, après plusieurs essais, le premier allumage du fourneau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allmuage
- alluamge
- allumaeg
- allumagge
- allumgae
- allummage
- alulmage
- alumage
- lalumage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allumage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).