fragments

/\fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,008

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

fragments is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de fragment. Pronounced \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #9,008 in French word frequency. Often confused with fragment.

Key facts for fragments
PropertyValue
Headwordfragments
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#9,008
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fragments is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,008 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de fragment.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for fragments, with forms such as "fargments", "ffragments", and "fragemnts". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fragment", 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 fragments, spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de fragment.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: fargments,ffragments,fragemnts,fraggments,fragmennts,fragmenst,fragmentss,fragmentts,fragmetns,fragmments,fragmnets,framgents,frgaments,frragments,rfagments

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fragments

Misspelling Variants of "fragments"

fargments9ffragments10fragemnts9fraggments10fragmennts10fragmenst9fragmentss10fragmentts10
Misspelling Variants of "fragments"

Frequency rank: #9,008 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fragments"?
"fragments" is spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\.
What does "fragments" mean?
As a noun, "fragments" means: Pluriel de fragment.
What words are commonly confused with "fragments"?
"fragments" is commonly confused with "fragment". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fragments"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fragments" is \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fragments" come from?
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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.