égarement
\e.ɡaʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“égarement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,742
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de s’égarer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-egarement · égarement · French
égarement · rank #43,742 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,742
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éditées
Nearest frequency peer: éditées (-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 « égarement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Zimmer
Zimmer
56,262 corpus weight
- Zion
Zion
56,261 corpus weight
- éditées
éditées
56,260 corpus weight
- égarement
égarement
56,259 corpus weight
- émergeant
émergeant
56,258 corpus weight
- épargnes
épargnes
56,257 corpus weight
What this shows « égarement » 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 | égarement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡaʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « égarement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around égarement (IPA \e.ɡaʁ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,742 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for égarement, with forms such as "egarement", "géarement", and "éagrement". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "étalement", "étirement", "engagement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is égarement, spelled É-G-A-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de s’égarer.
- 2Dérèglement de mœurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how égarement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— L'expérience acquise par les gens de forêt leur permet de s'y mouvoir sans crainte d’égarement, mais seulement sur une étendue de faible dimension : on s'éloigne peu des lieux familiers car la maîtrise cognitive de l'étendue forestière est indispensable à la survie.
Ma belle-mère m'avait appris, dans un moment d’égarement, qu'il avait été en prison pendant vingt ans pour inceste sur ses propres filles en Normandie et interdit de séjour depuis lors dans sa région.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egarement
- géarement
- éagrement
- égaerment
- égareemnt
- égaremennt
- égarementt
- égaremetn
- égaremment
- égaremnet
- égarmeent
- égarrement
- éggarement
- égraement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of égarement - 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 "égarement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).