auger
\o.ʒe\
The verdict
“auger” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,234
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Creuser en auge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auger · auger · French
auger · rank #29,234 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,234
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auditif
Nearest frequency peer: auditif (-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 « auger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- astucieux
astucieux
70,770 corpus weight
- attester
attester
70,769 corpus weight
- auditif
auditif
70,768 corpus weight
- auger
auger
70,767 corpus weight
- autoritaris…
autoritarisme
70,766 corpus weight
- avi
avi
70,765 corpus weight
What this shows « auger » 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 | auger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around auger (IPA \o.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,234 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for auger, with forms such as "aguer", "auegr", and "augerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aur", "aune", "Aure", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is auger, spelled A-U-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Creuser en auge.
- 2Creuser en gouttière une des surfaces d’un morceau de fer plat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aguer
- auegr
- augerr
- augger
- augre
- uager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of auger - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "auger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).