engagement

/\ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,222

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

engagement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’engager quelque chose ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #2,222 in French word frequency. Often confused with engagent and engouement.

Key facts for engagement
PropertyValue
Headwordengagement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,222
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for engagement is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,222 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for engagement, with forms such as "egnagement", "enaggement", and "engaegment". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "engagent", "engouement", "engagements", 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 engagement, spelled E-N-G-A-G-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’engager quelque chose ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Acte par lequel on cède à quelqu’un la jouissance d’un bien-fonds pour un temps déterminé.
  3. 3
    Action de s’engager par une promesse ou résultat de cette action.
  4. 4
    Enrôlement volontaire d’un soldat.
  5. 5
    Fait de s’engager à servir quelqu’un, une société, une entreprise pour un certain temps.
  6. 6
    Combat et surtout combat qui a lieu entre des corps détachés.
  7. 7
    Acte ou attitude de l'intellectuel ou de l'artiste qui, prenant conscience de son appartenance au monde, abandonne une position de simple spectateur et met sa personne, sa pensée ou son art au service d'une cause
  8. 8
    Procédure règlementée qui débute une séquence de jeu dans des sports tels le football ou le hockey sur glace, par laquelle l'objet utilisé (par ex. ballon, palet) est mis en jeu sur le terrain.
  9. 9
    Phénomène qui explique les raisons pour lesquelles une personne commet des actes de sa propre initiative.
  10. 10
    Inscription officielle d'un cheval comme participant à une course.
  11. 11
    Conditions de course pour un cheval, considérées relativement à ses chances de succès aux gains.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egnagement,enaggement,engaegment,engageemnt,engagemennt,engagementt,engagemetn,engagemment,engagemnet,engaggement,engagmeent,enggaement,enggagement,enngagement,negagement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for engagement

Misspelling Variants of "engagement"

egnagement10enaggement10engaegment10engageemnt10engagemennt11engagementt11engagemetn10engagemment11
Misspelling Variants of "engagement"

Frequency rank: #2,222 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engagement"?
"engagement" is spelled E-N-G-A-G-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\.
What does "engagement" mean?
As a noun, "engagement" means: Action d’engager quelque chose ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "engagement"?
"engagement" is commonly confused with "engagent", "engouement", "engagements". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "engagement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "engagement" is \ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "engagement" come from?
"engagement" 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.