bague

/\baɡ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,785

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

bague is aFrenchnoun. It means: Anneau qui se porte à un doigt. Pronounced \baɡ\. It ranks #6,785 in French word frequency. Often confused with bue and Base.

Key facts for bague
PropertyValue
Headwordbague
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\baɡ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,785
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bague in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bague is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \baɡ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,785 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for bague, with forms such as "abgue", "bageu", and "baggue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bue", "Base", "baie", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bague, spelled B-A-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anneau qui se porte à un doigt.
  2. 2
    Anneau que l’on suspendait à un poteau vers le bout d’une carrière où se font des courses et que ceux qui courent tâchent d’enlever au passage avec le bout de la lance.
  3. 3
    Moulure coupant la hauteur d’une colonne.
  4. 4
    Partie d'un appareil qui entoure, encercle un autre élément.
  5. 5
    Tout dispositif rappelant la forme d’un anneau.
  6. 6
    Anneau fixé sur une voile et coulissant sur la draille.
  7. 7
    Anneau que l'on place à la patte des oiseaux pour les identifier.
  8. 8
    Anneau de papier qui entoure un cigare et en porte la marque.
  9. 9
    Élément d’un appareil dentaire collé aux dents, nommé aussi bracket vestibulaire ou broche.
  10. 10
    Chose.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abgue,bageu,baggue,bauge,bbague,bgaue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bague

Misspelling Variants of "bague"

abgue5bageu5baggue6bauge5bbague6bgaue5
Misspelling Variants of "bague"

Frequency rank: #6,785 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bague"?
"bague" is spelled B-A-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \baɡ\.
What does "bague" mean?
As a noun, "bague" means: Anneau qui se porte à un doigt.
What words are commonly confused with "bague"?
"bague" is commonly confused with "bue", "Base", "baie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bague"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bague" is \baɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bague" come from?
"bague" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.