cégep
\se.ʒɛp\
The verdict
“cégep” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,351
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement d’enseignement collégial où est offerte une formation technique et pré-universitaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cegep · cégep · French
cégep · rank #12,351 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,351
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cubes
Nearest frequency peer: cubes (-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 « cégep »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CRS
CRS
87,653 corpus weight
- crèche
crèche
87,652 corpus weight
- cubes
cubes
87,651 corpus weight
- cégep
cégep
87,650 corpus weight
- diffère
diffère
87,649 corpus weight
- Dirigent
Dirigent
87,648 corpus weight
What this shows « cégep » 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 | cégep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ʒɛp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cégep »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cégep (IPA \se.ʒɛp\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,351 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Établissement d’enseignement collégial où est offerte une formation technique et pré-universitaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cégep, with forms such as "ccégep", "cegep", and "cgéep". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "cep", "cese", "CPGE", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cégep, spelled C-É-G-E-P.
Definition
- 1Établissement d’enseignement collégial où est offerte une formation technique et pré-universitaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cégep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Simon va réussir ses examens, cela va le revaloriser, et au cégep, il se sentira traité en adulte.
Pour ne plus avoir de « danke schön » à dire au Führer familial, dès la fin du cégep, il avait fait une croix gammée sur les études universitaires et était rentré dans la police.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccégep
- cegep
- cgéep
- céegp
- cégepp
- céggep
- cégpe
- écgep
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cégep - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cégep", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).