chiffrage
\ʃi.fʁaʒ\
The verdict
“chiffrage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,881. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,881
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’écrire en chiffre ; cette écriture elle-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiffrage · chiffrage · French
chiffrage · rank #31,881 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,881
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chercha
Nearest frequency peer: chercha (-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 « chiffrage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chambly
Chambly
68,123 corpus weight
- cheffe
cheffe
68,122 corpus weight
- chercha
chercha
68,121 corpus weight
- chiffrage
chiffrage
68,120 corpus weight
- ciblant
ciblant
68,119 corpus weight
- cinquantena…
cinquantenaire
68,118 corpus weight
What this shows « chiffrage » 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 | chiffrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.fʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiffrage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chiffrage (IPA \ʃi.fʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,881 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiffrage, with forms such as "cchiffrage", "chfifrage", and "chhiffrage". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "chiffre", "chiffrée", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chiffrage, spelled C-H-I-F-F-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’écrire en chiffre ; cette écriture elle-même.
- 2Transcription ou notation de la musique en chiffres.
- 3Action de chiffrer un document.
- 4Évaluation financière d'un projet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chiffrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces nouveaux thermomètres métalliques n'ont point ces graves inconvénients , la division et le chiffrage sont en relief de 2 millim. sur le fond , ils sont d'une telle grandeur qu'ils peuvent être lus à une assez grande distance.
Dans les premiers temps, l'harmonie étant des plus simples, le chiffrage l'était aussi: toute note de basse était supposée porter l'accord parfait dont l'espèce majeure ou mineure se reconnaissait au moyen du bémol, du bécarre ou du dièze placés devant le chiffre 3, qui servait à désigner la tierce de l'accord; les autres chiffres n'étaient employés que p…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchiffrage
- chfifrage
- chhiffrage
- chiffarge
- chiffraeg
- chiffragge
- chiffrgae
- chiffrrage
- chifrage
- chifrfage
- cihffrage
- hciffrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chiffrage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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