engager

/\ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,071

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

engager is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre en gage, donner en gage. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\. It ranks #3,071 in French word frequency. Often confused with enragé and entamer.

Key facts for engager
PropertyValue
Headwordengager
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,071
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for engager is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,071 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for engager, with forms such as "egnager", "enagger", and "engaegr". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "enragé", "entamer", "enrayer", 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 engager, spelled E-N-G-A-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre en gage, donner en gage.
  2. 2
    Donner pour assurance.
  3. 3
    Servir de caution à quelqu’un.
  4. 4
    Lier par une promesse qui doit être exécutée, par une convention qui doit être respectée.
  5. 5
    Promettre en mariage.
  6. 6
    Fournir un emploi ou une fonction, par un contrat déterminé, soit pour un temps, soit pour toujours.
  7. 7
    Faire entrer une chose dans une autre où elle est prise.
  8. 8
    Commencer une lutte, un combat, voire une querelle, une discussion.
  9. 9
    Inviter à un dîner.
  10. 10
    Être empêché par une invitation antérieure d’en accepter une autre.
  11. 11
    Induire, exhorter, pousser à.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egnager,enagger,engaegr,engagerr,engagger,engagre,enggaer,enggager,enngager,negager

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for engager

Misspelling Variants of "engager"

egnager7enagger7engaegr7engagerr8engagger8engagre7enggaer7enggager8
Misspelling Variants of "engager"

Frequency rank: #3,071 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engager"?
"engager" is spelled E-N-G-A-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\.
What does "engager" mean?
As a verb, "engager" means: Mettre en gage, donner en gage.
What words are commonly confused with "engager"?
"engager" is commonly confused with "enragé", "entamer", "enrayer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "engager"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "engager" is \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "engager" come from?
"engager" 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.