ego
\e.ɡo\
The verdict
“ego” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,384 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,384
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Représentation et conscience que l’on a de soi-même, en tant qu’individu séparé des autres, voire unique au monde, cherchant à être valorisé.
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 | ego |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ego” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ego is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ɡo\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,384 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ego in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ego, spelled E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Représentation et conscience que l’on a de soi-même, en tant qu’individu séparé des autres, voire unique au monde, cherchant à être valorisé.
- 2Partie de soi qui se sent détachée du grand Tout (le Soi), qui empêche la conscience universaliste et qui donne erronément un sens d'individualité à la personne, source du malheur de l'existence individuelle selon plusieurs discours spirituels.
- 3Orgueil, vanité.
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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Using “ego”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ɡo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “et” - see the side-by-side comparison. ego vs et
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.