bandage
\bɑ̃.daʒ\
The verdict
“bandage” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #29,242 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #29,242
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre.
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 | bandage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bandage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bandage is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃.daʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,242 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bandage, with forms such as "abndage", "badnage", and "banadge". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "bande", "barrage", "battage", 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 bandage, spelled B-A-N-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre.
- 2Action de placer un bandeau, de le serrer autour de quelque chose.
- 3Action de placer un bandeau, de le serrer autour de quelque chose.
- 4Action de placer un bandeau, de le serrer autour de quelque chose.
- 5Pansement, garrot, fait avec une bande ou moyen d’immobilisation d’une articulation ou d’un segment de membre avec une ou plusieurs bandes d’après une technique définie.
- 6Pansement, garrot, fait avec une bande ou moyen d’immobilisation d’une articulation ou d’un segment de membre avec une ou plusieurs bandes d’après une technique définie.
- 7Mise en compression de tous les éléments d’une voûte après retrait des soutènements.
- 8Cercle ou bande de métal, de caoutchouc ou de polymère entourant la jante d’une roue.
- 9Cercle ou bande de métal, de caoutchouc ou de polymère entourant la jante d’une roue.
- 10Cercle ou bande de métal, de caoutchouc ou de polymère entourant la jante d’une roue.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abndage,badnage,banadge,bandaeg,bandagge,banddage,bandgae,banndage,bbandage,bnadage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bandage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “bandage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-D-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɑ̃.daʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bande” - see the side-by-side comparison. bandage vs bande
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.