bagage
\ba.ɡaʒ\
The verdict
“bagage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,317
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équipage de voyage ou de guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bagage · bagage · French
bagage · rank #12,317 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,317
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aériens
Nearest frequency peer: aériens (-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 « bagage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avancent
avancent
87,687 corpus weight
- azote
azote
87,686 corpus weight
- aériens
aériens
87,685 corpus weight
- bagage
bagage
87,684 corpus weight
- bagnole
bagnole
87,683 corpus weight
- baigner
baigner
87,682 corpus weight
What this shows « bagage » 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 | bagage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bagage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bagage (IPA \ba.ɡaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,317 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bagage, with forms such as "abgage", "baagge", and "bagaeg". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "bague", "bagne", "barge", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bagage, spelled B-A-G-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Équipage de voyage ou de guerre.
- 2Objet que l’on emporte en voyage.
- 3Mobilier de pauvres gens.
- 4Connaissances que l’on possède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bagage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la nuit du 26 au 27 août 1870, le général de Failly, Commandant en chef du 5ᵉ corps d’armée, reçut l’ordre de se diriger vers Bar-lès-Buzancy et de laisser au Chêne-Populeux ses bagages sous la garde d’un bataillon.
Vers cet âge, il se faisait par semaine trois shillings et plus en portant les bagages des voyageurs à la station et en vendant la gazette hebdomadaire de la localité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abgage
- baagge
- bagaeg
- bagagge
- baggae
- baggage
- bbagage
- bgaage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bagage - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).