curage
\ky.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“curage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,588
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de curer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curage · curage · French
curage · rank #49,588 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,588
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cupide
Nearest frequency peer: cupide (-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 « curage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cruiser
cruiser
50,415 corpus weight
- cupide
cupide
50,414 corpus weight
- curage
curage
50,413 corpus weight
- cédille
cédille
50,412 corpus weight
- céphalées
céphalées
50,411 corpus weight
- declare
declare
50,410 corpus weight
What this shows « curage » 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 | curage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around curage (IPA \ky.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de curer ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for curage, with forms such as "ccurage", "cruage", and "cuarge". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cure", "curie", "cutané", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is curage, spelled C-U-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de curer ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le curage des vases de la Darse au moyen d'un dragueur à la vapeur de la force de 14 chevaux, a été complet en 1837.
Réalisés par l’entreprise Prodemo, les travaux de curage et de désamiantage de ce bâtiment XIXᵉ ont donc commencé et devraient s’achever cet été.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurage
- cruage
- cuarge
- curaeg
- curagge
- curgae
- currage
- ucrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curage - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).