engagement
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engagement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡaʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action d’engager quelque chose ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Acte par lequel on cède à quelqu’un la jouissance d’un bien-fonds pour un temps déterminé.
- 3Action de s’engager par une promesse ou résultat de cette action.
- 4Enrôlement volontaire d’un soldat.
- 5Fait de s’engager à servir quelqu’un, une société, une entreprise pour un certain temps.
- 6Combat et surtout combat qui a lieu entre des corps détachés.
- 7Acte 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
- 8Procédure 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.
- 9Phénomène qui explique les raisons pour lesquelles une personne commet des actes de sa propre initiative.
- 10Inscription officielle d'un cheval comme participant à une course.
- 11Conditions 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"
Frequency rank: #2,222 in French
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