bandage

/\bɑ̃.daʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,242

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

bandage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre. Pronounced \bɑ̃.daʒ\. Often confused with bande and barrage.

Key facts for bandage
PropertyValue
Headwordbandage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɑ̃.daʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,242
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bandage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bandage, with forms such as "abndage", "badnage", and "banadge". 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 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bandage, spelled B-A-N-D-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre.
  2. 2
    Action de placer un bandeau, de le serrer autour de quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Action de placer un bandeau, de le serrer autour de quelque chose.
  4. 4
    Action de placer un bandeau, de le serrer autour de quelque chose.
  5. 5
    Pansement, 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.
  6. 6
    Pansement, 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.
  7. 7
    Mise en compression de tous les éléments d’une voûte après retrait des soutènements.
  8. 8
    Cercle ou bande de métal, de caoutchouc ou de polymère entourant la jante d’une roue.
  9. 9
    Cercle ou bande de métal, de caoutchouc ou de polymère entourant la jante d’une roue.
  10. 10
    Cercle 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bandage

Misspelling Variants of "bandage"

abndage7badnage7banadge7bandaeg7bandagge8banddage8bandgae7banndage8
Misspelling Variants of "bandage"

Frequency rank: #29,242 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bandage"?
"bandage" is spelled B-A-N-D-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɑ̃.daʒ\.
What does "bandage" mean?
As a noun, "bandage" means: Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre.
What words are commonly confused with "bandage"?
"bandage" is commonly confused with "bande", "barrage", "battage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bandage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bandage" is \bɑ̃.daʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bandage" come from?
"bandage" 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.