engrenage

\ɑ̃.ɡʁə.naʒ\

/\ɑ̃.ɡʁə.naʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“engrenage” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,536
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition de plusieurs roues qui s’engrènent les unes dans les autres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-engrenage · engrenage · French

engrenage · rank #23,536 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #23,536
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH England

Nearest frequency peer: England (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « engrenage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « engrenage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

engrenage vs engrenages
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for engrenage
PropertyValue
Headwordengrenage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡʁə.naʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,536
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « engrenage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).engrenagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « England » (#23,535), « enseignée » (#23,537), « entamée » (#23,538). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « engrenage » est au #23,536. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around engrenage (IPA \ɑ̃.ɡʁə.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,536 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for engrenage, with forms such as "egnrenage", "engernage", and "enggrenage". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "engrenages", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is engrenage, spelled E-N-G-R-E-N-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disposition de plusieurs roues qui s’engrènent les unes dans les autres.
  2. 2
    Enchaînement de circonstances dont on ne peut se dégager.
  3. 3
    Rouge d’engrenage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how engrenage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Deux grands défauts qu'on doit éviter dans un engrenage, c'est qu'il soit trop fort ou trop faible. Dans le premier cas, les dents de la roue sont sujettes à quoter, c'est-à-dire, que les deux pointes de deux dents voisines vont toucher les deux faces opposées des deux ailes du pignon ; de sorte que ni la roue, ni le pignon ne peuvent se mouvoir.
  2. Le mouvement de rotation imprimé par le vent à l'arbre est transmis aux meules par l’intermédiaire d’engrenages, qui sont ordinairement en bois.

Synonyms

gearroue d’engrenageroue dentéeroue d’horloge

This word in other languages

gear(English)engranaje(Español)Getriebe(Deutsch)engrenagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • egnrenage
  • engernage
  • enggrenage
  • engreange
  • engrenaeg
  • engrenagge
  • engrengae
  • engrennage
  • engrneage
  • engrrenage
  • enngrenage
  • enrgenage
  • negrenage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of engrenage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

egnrenage2engernage2enggrenage1engreange2engrenaeg2engrenagge1engrengae2engrennage1
Edit distance from "engrenage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engrenage"?
"engrenage" is spelled E-N-G-R-E-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡʁə.naʒ\.
What does "engrenage" mean?
As a noun, "engrenage" means: Disposition de plusieurs roues qui s’engrènent les unes dans les autres.
What words are commonly confused with "engrenage"?
"engrenage" is commonly confused with "engrenages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "engrenage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "engrenage" is \ɑ̃.ɡʁə.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "engrenage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "engrenage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

enseignée#23,537empruntée#23,533exemption#23,544défection#23,525

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

effroyable13 variantsdrastique13 variantsdotations13 variantsgourmande13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list