fichage
\fi.ʃaʒ\
The verdict
“fichage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,436
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de ficher, dans un sol par exemple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fichage · fichage · French
fichage · rank #43,436 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,436
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FFR
Nearest frequency peer: FFR (-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 « fichage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ferrier
ferrier
56,568 corpus weight
- ferro
ferro
56,567 corpus weight
- FFR
FFR
56,566 corpus weight
- fichage
fichage
56,565 corpus weight
- Filip
Filip
56,564 corpus weight
- filou
filou
56,563 corpus weight
What this shows « fichage » 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 | fichage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.ʃaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fichage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fichage (IPA \fi.ʃaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,436 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fichage, with forms such as "fcihage", "ffichage", and "ficahge". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fiche", "fichue", "fichait", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fichage, spelled F-I-C-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de ficher, dans un sol par exemple.
- 2Mise en fiches. Action de recueillir et de stocker des renseignements sur des personnes, que ce soit sur des fiches cartonnées (traditionnellement) ou informatiquement. Stockage et archivage de données informatiques.
- 3Surveillance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fichage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fichage d’un pieu.
France Télés progresse dans l'affaire du fichage des salariés par leurs supérieurs hiérarchiques. Après avoir nié puis reconnu l'existence de ces fiches secrètes, le groupe s'était vu signifier l'interdiction de les détruire par le TGI de Paris, le 17 septembre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcihage
- ffichage
- ficahge
- ficchage
- fichaeg
- fichagge
- fichgae
- fichhage
- fihcage
- ifchage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fichage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).