envisage

\ɑ̃.vi.zaʒ\

/\ɑ̃.vi.zaʒ\/ verb

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The verdict

“envisage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,056
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de envisager.

Corpus desk

Index FR-envisage · envisage · French

envisage · rank #7,056 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,056
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH encre

Nearest frequency peer: encre (-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 « envisage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « envisage » 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).

envisage vs envisager
89% similar
envisage vs envisagée
89% similar
envisage vs envisagez
89% similar

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

Key facts for envisage
PropertyValue
Headwordenvisage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.vi.zaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,056
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « envisage »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « encre » (#7,055), « exécuter » (#7,057), « foncé » (#7,058). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « envisage » est au #7,056. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around envisage (IPA \ɑ̃.vi.zaʒ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,056 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for envisage, with forms such as "enivsage", "ennvisage", and "enviasge". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "envisager", "envisagée", "envisagez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is envisage, spelled E-N-V-I-S-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de envisager.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de envisager.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de envisager.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de envisager.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de envisager.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. J’ai publié deux ouvrages historiques, je prépare un essai sur Marcel Proust et j’envisage d’écrire une pièce de théâtre qui mettra en scène Himiltrude, Désirée, Hildegarde, Fastrade et Liutgarde, les cinq femmes de Charlemagne.
  2. « Il y aura des passages pluvio-orageux tout au long de la semaine prochaine », envisage Claire Chanal, prévisionniste à Météo-France.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • enivsage
  • ennvisage
  • enviasge
  • envisaeg
  • envisagge
  • envisgae
  • envissage
  • envsiage
  • envvisage
  • evnisage
  • nevisage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of envisage - 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.

enivsage2ennvisage1enviasge2envisaeg2envisagge1envisgae2envissage1envsiage2
Edit distance from "envisage"

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 "envisage"?
"envisage" is spelled E-N-V-I-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.vi.zaʒ\.
What does "envisage" mean?
As a verb, "envisage" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de envisager.
What words are commonly confused with "envisage"?
"envisage" is commonly confused with "envisager", "envisagée", "envisagez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "envisage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "envisage" is \ɑ̃.vi.zaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "envisage" come from?
"envisage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

exécuter#7,057habiller#7,065habituel#7,066consulté#7,040

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

franche11 variantsgentils11 variantscritère11 variantscristal11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list