échanger
\e.ʃɑ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“échanger” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,940
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner une chose contre une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echanger · échanger · French
échanger · rank #5,940 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,940
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH âmes
Nearest frequency peer: âmes (-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 « échanger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- usages
usages
94,064 corpus weight
- violents
violents
94,063 corpus weight
- âmes
âmes
94,062 corpus weight
- échanger
échanger
94,061 corpus weight
- écrivains
écrivains
94,060 corpus weight
- accompagnée
accompagnée
94,059 corpus weight
What this shows « échanger » 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 | échanger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃɑ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échanger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around échanger (IPA \e.ʃɑ̃.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,940 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for échanger, with forms such as "céhanger", "echanger", and "écahnger". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "étranger", "échanges", "échapper", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is échanger, spelled É-C-H-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner une chose contre une autre.
- 2Substituer une chose à une autre.
- 3S’adresser réciproquement.
- 4Se remettre, se communiquer ou s’envoyer réciproquement des pouvoirs, un acte, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A mesure qu’augmentait les émissions de papier-monnaie, s’accentuait la dépréciation du mark, et de plus en plus les particuliers s’efforçaient, quand ils recevaient des billets, de les échanger aussitôt contre des marchandises.
Je vous accompagne à deux pas, déclara Jacques, en échangeant pour ses sabots les pantoufles brodées par les soins de son épouse ; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhanger
- echanger
- écahnger
- écchanger
- échagner
- échanegr
- échangerr
- échangger
- échangre
- échannger
- échhanger
- échnager
- éhcanger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échanger - 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 "échanger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).