éponges
\e.pɔ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“éponges” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,529
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de éponge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eponges · éponges · French
éponges · rank #33,529 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH énervent
Nearest frequency peer: énervent (-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 « éponges »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- éliminées
éliminées
66,476 corpus weight
- Élodie
Élodie
66,475 corpus weight
- élogieux
élogieux
66,474 corpus weight
- énervent
énervent
66,473 corpus weight
- éponges
éponges
66,472 corpus weight
- étoffer
étoffer
66,471 corpus weight
What this shows « éponges » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éponges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pɔ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éponges »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around éponges (IPA \e.pɔ̃ʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,529 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de éponge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for éponges, with forms such as "eponges", "péonges", and "éopnges". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "époques", "épouses", "étonnes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éponges, spelled É-P-O-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de éponge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éponges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il sacrifie le matériel à une tendance fondamentale préconçue : prouver que « la théorie réflective est maintenant devenue plutôt une entrave qu’un élément de progrès » dans l’étude des fonctions cérébrales, qu’il y a, sous ce rapport, plus de force et de signification dans l’assertion de Spearman, par exemple (« l’intellect est la fonction de quelque éne…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eponges
- péonges
- éopnges
- épnoges
- épognes
- éponegs
- épongess
- épongges
- épongse
- éponnges
- épponges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éponges - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).