iga
[ˈiɣo̞]
The verdict
“iga” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,992) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,992
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fondrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iga · iga · French
iga · rank #35,992 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,992
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hâtives
Nearest frequency peer: hâtives (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « iga »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- hublot
hublot
64,012 corpus weight
- humiliante
humiliante
64,011 corpus weight
- hâtives
hâtives
64,010 corpus weight
- iga
iga
64,009 corpus weight
- incarnait
incarnait
64,007 corpus weight
- indiquaient
indiquaient
64,006 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « iga » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | iga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈiɣo̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « iga »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for iga is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "ii", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈiɣo̞]. Frequency #35,992 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Fondrière.".
Zero misspellings are on record for iga in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "ii", "it", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 iga, spelled I-G-A.
Definition
- 1Fondrière.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).