fromage
\fʁɔ.maʒ\
The verdict
“fromage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,923
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aliment moulé, obtenu à partir de la coagulation du lait suivie ou non de fermentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fromage · fromage · French
fromage · rank #3,923 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,923
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH froide
Nearest frequency peer: froide (-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 « fromage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flotte
flotte
96,081 corpus weight
- forcer
forcer
96,080 corpus weight
- froide
froide
96,079 corpus weight
- fromage
fromage
96,078 corpus weight
- guère
guère
96,077 corpus weight
- ile
ile
96,076 corpus weight
What this shows « fromage » 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 | fromage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fromage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fromage (IPA \fʁɔ.maʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,923 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fromage, with forms such as "ffromage", "formage", and "frmoage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fromages", "fromager", "forage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is fromage, spelled F-R-O-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Aliment moulé, obtenu à partir de la coagulation du lait suivie ou non de fermentation.
- 2Charcuterie (ou autre production carnée) pressée prenant la forme du moule dans lequel elle est préparée.
- 3Situation lucrative et de tout repos, en référence à la fable de Jean de La Fontaine, Le rat qui s'était retiré du Monde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fromage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché, Tenait en son bec un fromage.
Son gardien s’assit en face de la porte de sa cellule, tira de son bissac du pain noir, des oignons et du fromage, qu’il se mit incontinent à dévorer.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffromage
- formage
- frmoage
- froamge
- fromaeg
- fromagge
- fromgae
- frommage
- frromage
- rfomage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fromage - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).