équipage

/\e.ki.paʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,581

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

équipage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réunion de ceux qui montent un navire pour en faire le service et la manœuvre. Pronounced \e.ki.paʒ\. It ranks #3,581 in French word frequency. Often confused with équipé and équipée.

Key facts for équipage
PropertyValue
Headwordéquipage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ki.paʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,581
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for équipage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ki.paʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,581 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for équipage, with forms such as "equipage", "qéuipage", and "éqiupage". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "équipé", "équipée", "équipages", 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 équipage, spelled É-Q-U-I-P-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réunion de ceux qui montent un navire pour en faire le service et la manœuvre.
  2. 2
    Personnel à bord d’un aéronef, ou d’un engin spatial, chargé de son fonctionnement et, le cas échéant, de la sécurité et du confort des passagers.
  3. 3
    Personnes responsables d’un véhicule, lors d’une compétition automobile.
  4. 4
    Toutes les choses nécessaires pour certaines entreprises ou opérations, pour divers exercices.
  5. 5
    Voiture hippomobile ou plus rarement automobile, de luxe ou de commodité d’un particulier.
  6. 6
    Train, suite, chevaux, mulets, carrosses, valets, etc., d’un riche personnage.
  7. 7
    Manière dont une personne est vêtue, aspect général qu’elle présente.
  8. 8
    Les grues, gruaux, chèvres, vindas, charriots et autres machines, que des échelles, baliveaux, dosses, cordages et tout ce qui sert pour la construction et pour le transport des matériaux. Ces instruments étaient ordinairement fournis par l'entrepreneur, le maçon n'ayant à s'occuper que de menu outillage.
  9. 9
    L'ensemble des ressources (hommes et bêtes) organisées pour la chasse. Il est lié à un territoire.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: equipage,qéuipage,éqiupage,éqquipage,équiapge,équipaeg,équipagge,équipgae,équippage,équpiage,éuqipage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for équipage

Misspelling Variants of "équipage"

equipage8qéuipage8éqiupage8éqquipage9équiapge8équipaeg8équipagge9équipgae8
Misspelling Variants of "équipage"

Frequency rank: #3,581 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "équipage"?
"équipage" is spelled É-Q-U-I-P-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ki.paʒ\.
What does "équipage" mean?
As a noun, "équipage" means: Réunion de ceux qui montent un navire pour en faire le service et la manœuvre.
What words are commonly confused with "équipage"?
"équipage" is commonly confused with "équipé", "équipée", "équipages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "équipage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "équipage" is \e.ki.paʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "équipage" come from?
"équipage" 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.