corriger

/\kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,744

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

corriger is aFrenchverb. It means: Rectifier, améliorer conformément à une règle, à des règles. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\. It ranks #5,744 in French word frequency. Often confused with Courier and courrier.

Key facts for corriger
PropertyValue
Headwordcorriger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,744
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of corriger in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for corriger is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,744 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 corriger, with forms such as "ccorriger", "coriger", and "corirger". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Courier", "courrier", "corrigé", 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 corriger, spelled C-O-R-R-I-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rectifier, améliorer conformément à une règle, à des règles.
  2. 2
    Indiquer par des marques les corrections à faire sur une épreuve.
  3. 3
    Réparer.
  4. 4
    Rectifier par l’observation les erreurs provenant de la dérive ou de la variation de la boussole.
  5. 5
    Réprimander, châtier, punir en vue d’améliorer le caractère, les habitudes.
  6. 6
    Tempérer.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorriger,coriger,corirger,corrgier,corriegr,corrigerr,corrigger,corrigre,croriger,ocrriger

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corriger

Misspelling Variants of "corriger"

ccorriger9coriger7corirger8corrgier8corriegr8corrigerr9corrigger9corrigre8
Misspelling Variants of "corriger"

Frequency rank: #5,744 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corriger"?
"corriger" is spelled C-O-R-R-I-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\.
What does "corriger" mean?
As a verb, "corriger" means: Rectifier, améliorer conformément à une règle, à des règles.
What words are commonly confused with "corriger"?
"corriger" is commonly confused with "Courier", "courrier", "corrigé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "corriger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corriger" is \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "corriger" come from?
"corriger" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.