ergonomie

/\ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\/ noun

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.

Key facts for ergonomie
PropertyValue
Headwordergonomie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#26,355
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 celui qui exécute, la transmission de l'information, etc.
  2. 2
    Caractère facilement utilisable d’un produit (mobilier, outil, objet, service, logiciel…).

This word in other languages

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"

egronomie9erggonomie10ergnoomie9ergonmoie9ergonnomie10ergonoime9ergonomei9ergonommie10
Misspelling Variants of "ergonomie"

Frequency rank: #26,355 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ergonomie"?
"ergonomie" is spelled E-R-G-O-N-O-M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\.
What does "ergonomie" mean?
As a noun, "ergonomie" 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "ergonomie"?
"ergonomie" is commonly confused with "ergonomique", "economie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ergonomie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ergonomie" is \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.nɔ.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ergonomie" come from?
"ergonomie" 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.