frange
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,265
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
frange is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bordure de quelque fil que ce soit, d’où pendent des effilés et dont on se sert pour orner les vêtements, les meubles, les draperies, etc. Pronounced \fʁɑ̃ʒ\. Often confused with frank and Franz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frange is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,265 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for frange, with forms such as "farnge", "ffrange", and "fragne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "frank", "Franz", "frêne", and more, 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 frange, spelled F-R-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bordure de quelque fil que ce soit, d’où pendent des effilés et dont on se sert pour orner les vêtements, les meubles, les draperies, etc.
- 2Bordure de passementerie, broderie, nœuds ou simplement effilochée décorative utilisée pour orner les drapeaux, pavillons…
- 3Bordure, bord.
- 4Ligne alternativement brillante ou obscure dans le cas où les ondulations lumineuses se contrarient.
- 5Cheveux retombant sur le front.
- 6Minorité ensemble de personnes plus ou moins marginalisé d’une collectivité, d’un mouvement, marge, périphérie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: farnge,ffrange,fragne,franeg,frangge,frannge,frnage,frrange,rfange
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "frange"
Frequency rank: #14,265 in French
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