badger
\bad.ʒe\
The verdict
“badger” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,510
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire lire son badge à une machine, en particulier pour s’identifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-badger · badger · French
badger · rank #49,510 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,510
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH avéra
Nearest frequency peer: avéra (-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 « badger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- autoroutiers
autoroutiers
50,495 corpus weight
- avertissant
avertissant
50,494 corpus weight
- aves
aves
50,493 corpus weight
- avéra
avéra
50,492 corpus weight
- badger
badger
50,491 corpus weight
- bambara
bambara
50,488 corpus weight
What this shows « badger » 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 | badger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bad.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « badger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around badger (IPA \bad.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,510 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faire lire son badge à une machine, en particulier pour s’identifier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for badger, with forms such as "abdger", "baddger", and "badegr". 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, "baer", "baker", "Bauer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is badger, spelled B-A-D-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire lire son badge à une machine, en particulier pour s’identifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how badger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ma boîte, il faut badger en permanence. Pour rentrer, pour prendre l’ascenseur, pour aller aux toilettes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abdger
- baddger
- badegr
- badgerr
- badgger
- badgre
- bagder
- bbadger
- bdager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of badger - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "badger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).