barge
\baʁʒ\
The verdict
“barge” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,069
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau limicole du genre Limosa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barge · barge · French
barge · rank #28,069 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,069
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barcelona
Nearest frequency peer: Barcelona (-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 « barge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bagne
bagne
71,935 corpus weight
- barbelés
barbelés
71,934 corpus weight
- Barcelona
Barcelona
71,933 corpus weight
- barge
barge
71,932 corpus weight
- battaient
battaient
71,931 corpus weight
- bazin
bazin
71,930 corpus weight
What this shows « barge » 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 | barge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « barge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around barge (IPA \baʁʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,069 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Oiseau limicole du genre Limosa.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for barge, with forms such as "abrge", "bagre", and "bareg". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bre", "Base", "bars", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is barge, spelled B-A-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Oiseau limicole du genre Limosa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pic n’abandonne jamais la tige des arbres, à l’entour de laquelle il lui est ordonné de ramper ; la barge doit rester dans ses marais, l’alouette dans ses sillons, la fauvette dans ses bocages.
Les barges, espèces de bécasses de mer, les courlis au long bec grêle et recourbé, peuplaient les anses vaseuses.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrge
- bagre
- bareg
- bargge
- barrge
- bbarge
- brage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barge - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).