ergonomie
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,355
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ergonomie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étude quantitative et qualitative du travail dans l’entreprise, visant à adapter le travail à l’être humain en analysant notamment les différentes étapes du travail industriel, leur perception par ... Pronounced \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\. Often confused with ergonomique and economie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ergonomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ergonomie is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,355 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ergonomie, with forms such as "egronomie", "erggonomie", and "ergnoomie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ergonomique", "economie", 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 ergonomie, spelled E-R-G-O-N-O-M-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étude quantitative et qualitative du travail dans l’entreprise, visant à adapter le travail à l’être humain en analysant notamment les différentes étapes du travail industriel, leur perception par celui qui exécute, la transmission de l'information, etc.
- 2Caractère facilement utilisable d’un produit (mobilier, outil, objet, service, logiciel…).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egronomie,erggonomie,ergnoomie,ergonmoie,ergonnomie,ergonoime,ergonomei,ergonommie,ergoonmie,erognomie,errgonomie,regonomie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ergonomie
Misspelling Variants of "ergonomie"
Frequency rank: #26,355 in French
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