fragment
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,384
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
fragment is aFrenchnoun. It means: Morceau de quelque chose qui a été cassé, brisé, séparé de son tout. Pronounced \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\. Often confused with froment and frappent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fragment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fragment is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,384 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for fragment, with forms such as "fargment", "ffragment", and "fragemnt". 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, "froment", "frappent", "fragments", 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 fragment, spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morceau de quelque chose qui a été cassé, brisé, séparé de son tout.
- 2Petite partie d’un livre, d’un traité, d’un ouvrage, etc.
- 3Morceau d’un livre, d’un ouvrage qui n’est pas encore terminé, ou qui n’a pu l’être.
- 4Format des données transitant par la couche de transport du modèle OSI.
- 5Élément d’une base de données distribuée fragmentée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fargment,ffragment,fragemnt,fraggment,fragmennt,fragmentt,fragmetn,fragmment,fragmnet,framgent,frgament,frragment,rfagment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fragment
Misspelling Variants of "fragment"
Frequency rank: #15,384 in French
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