amorçage
\a.mɔʁ.saʒ\
The verdict
“amorçage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,115
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action d’amorcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amorcage · amorçage · French
amorçage · rank #40,115 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,115
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 424,905
- PHOTO-FINISH amortisseurs
Nearest frequency peer: amortisseurs (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “amorçage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- alim
alim
59,889 corpus weight
- alizée
alizée
59,888 corpus weight
- amortisseurs
amortisseurs
59,887 corpus weight
- amorçage
amorçage
59,886 corpus weight
- amènerait
amènerait
59,885 corpus weight
- andalouse
andalouse
59,884 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “amorçage” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | amorçage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɔʁ.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amorçage” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around amorçage (IPA \a.mɔʁ.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,115 among 424,905 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for amorçage, with forms such as "ammorçage", "amoraçge", and "amorcage". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "amorce", "amorcée", "abordage", 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 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 amorçage, spelled A-M-O-R-Ç-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’amorcer.
- 2Action d'appâter un client.
- 3Départ d’un arc électrique.
- 4Action d’amorcer : lancement de la séquence d'opérations du démarrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amorçage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lumières servaient à étudier les visages de la rue, les terrasses de café étaient des lieux d’amorçage où elles semaient un regard après lequel elles se détournaient pour voir si l’on récolte ce que l’on a semé.
Lors de l’installation, un système Linux minimal est chargé en mémoire à partir d’un noyau et d’une image disque présents sur le support d’amorçage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammorçage
- amoraçge
- amorcage
- amorrçage
- amorçaeg
- amorçagge
- amorçgae
- amoçrage
- amroçage
- aomrçage
- maorçage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amorçage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amorçage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).
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.