ciblage
\si.blaʒ\
The verdict
“ciblage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,400. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,400
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de cibler, résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ciblage · ciblage · French
ciblage · rank #31,400 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,400
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chilienne
Nearest frequency peer: chilienne (-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 « ciblage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chamois
chamois
68,604 corpus weight
- Charette
Charette
68,603 corpus weight
- chilienne
chilienne
68,602 corpus weight
- ciblage
ciblage
68,601 corpus weight
- cicatrisati…
cicatrisation
68,600 corpus weight
- civic
civic
68,599 corpus weight
What this shows « ciblage » 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 | ciblage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.blaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ciblage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ciblage (IPA \si.blaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,400 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ciblage, with forms such as "cbilage", "cciblage", and "cibalge". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cible", "ciblée", "collage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ciblage, spelled C-I-B-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de cibler, résultat de cette action.
- 2Processus qui comprend la recherche, l’identification et la hiérarchisation des objectifs à neutraliser ou à détruire, ainsi que le choix des moyens à mettre en œuvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ciblage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les annonces les plus fortes concernent le cinquième et dernier aspect de ces orientations, le ciblage des établissements les plus exposés.
Le ciblage consiste à choisir quels segments (ou quels marchés ou quelles clientèles) l’entreprise veut conquérir et fidéliser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbilage
- cciblage
- cibalge
- cibblage
- ciblaeg
- ciblagge
- ciblgae
- cibllage
- cilbage
- icblage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ciblage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "ciblage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).