fige
\fiʒ\
The verdict
“fige” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,806
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de figer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fige · fige · French
fige · rank #38,806 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,806
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fifty
Nearest frequency peer: fifty (-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 « fige »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fessenheim
Fessenheim
61,198 corpus weight
- fessier
fessier
61,197 corpus weight
- fifty
fifty
61,196 corpus weight
- fige
fige
61,195 corpus weight
- fill
fill
61,194 corpus weight
- finalités
finalités
61,193 corpus weight
What this shows « fige » 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 | fige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fiʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fige »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around fige (IPA \fiʒ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,806 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fige, with forms such as "ffige", "fgie", and "fieg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fin", "fil", "fit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fige, spelled F-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de figer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de figer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de figer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de figer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de figer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi il se détache du monde et de la société, il se construit un univers qui se suffit à lui-même et qui, à force de se déconcrétiser et de se dématérialiser, se fige, se pétrifie pour n’être plus qu’une image, qu’une ombre idéalisée, une illusion, une chimère.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffige
- fgie
- fieg
- figge
- ifge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fige - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).