bandage
\bɑ̃.daʒ\
The verdict
“bandage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,242
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandage · bandage · French
bandage · rank #29,242 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,242
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balladur
Nearest frequency peer: Balladur (-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 « bandage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bagatelle
bagatelle
70,762 corpus weight
- baisée
baisée
70,761 corpus weight
- Balladur
Balladur
70,760 corpus weight
- bandage
bandage
70,759 corpus weight
- Barton
Barton
70,758 corpus weight
- baule
baule
70,757 corpus weight
What this shows « bandage » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bandage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bandage (IPA \bɑ̃.daʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,242 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bandage d’un arc, d’une arbalète.
Le bandage des yeux d’un homme avant de le fusiller est d’une pratique courante.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).