engager
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Mettre en gage, donner en gage.
- 2Donner pour assurance.
- 3Servir de caution à quelqu’un.
- 4Lier par une promesse qui doit être exécutée, par une convention qui doit être respectée.
- 5Promettre en mariage.
- 6Fournir un emploi ou une fonction, par un contrat déterminé, soit pour un temps, soit pour toujours.
- 7Faire entrer une chose dans une autre où elle est prise.
- 8Commencer une lutte, un combat, voire une querelle, une discussion.
- 9Inviter à un dîner.
- 10Être empêché par une invitation antérieure d’en accepter une autre.
- 11Induire, 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"
Frequency rank: #3,071 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "engager"?
What does "engager" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "engager"?
How do you pronounce "engager"?
What language does "engager" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our French index: