frégate
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,733
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
frégate is aFrenchnoun. It means: Navire de guerre qui n’avait qu’une seule batterie couverte et qui portait de vingt à soixante bouches à feu. Often confused with frégates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frégate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frégate is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #20,733 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for frégate, with forms such as "ffrégate", "fregate", and "frgéate". 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, "frégates", 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 frégate, spelled F-R-É-G-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Navire de guerre qui n’avait qu’une seule batterie couverte et qui portait de vingt à soixante bouches à feu.
- 2Navire de guerre de taille moyenne, intermédiaire entre la corvette et le croiseur, principalement destiné à la lutte contre les sous-marins et les avions.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffrégate,fregate,frgéate,frrégate,fréagte,frégaet,frégatte,fréggate,frégtae,férgate,rfégate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frégate
Misspelling Variants of "frégate"
Frequency rank: #20,733 in French
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