guidage
\ɡi.daʒ\
The verdict
“guidage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,229
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de guider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guidage · guidage · French
guidage · rank #24,229 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,229
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grignoter
Nearest frequency peer: grignoter (-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 « guidage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glucides
glucides
75,775 corpus weight
- gonflement
gonflement
75,774 corpus weight
- grignoter
grignoter
75,773 corpus weight
- guidage
guidage
75,772 corpus weight
- guys
guys
75,771 corpus weight
- guérie
guérie
75,770 corpus weight
What this shows « guidage » 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 | guidage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « guidage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around guidage (IPA \ɡi.daʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,229 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for guidage, with forms such as "gguidage", "giudage", and "gudiage". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "guide", "guidée", "guitare", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 guidage, spelled G-U-I-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de guider.
- 2Organe dont le rôle est d'assurer la précision d'un mouvement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guidage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon cette distinction, le pilotage s’apparente au guidage de l’étudiant, portant sur l’acquisition des différents savoirs propres à la pratique professionnelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguidage
- giudage
- gudiage
- guiadge
- guidaeg
- guidagge
- guiddage
- guidgae
- ugidage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guidage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guidage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).