bandage
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #29,242 in French
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Nearby French words
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