IGP
The verdict
“IGP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,497) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,497
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indication géographique protégée, label géographique décerné par l’Union européenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-igp · IGP · French
IGP · rank #44,497 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,497
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imposerait
Nearest frequency peer: imposerait (+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 « IGP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- husky
husky
55,507 corpus weight
- huttes
huttes
55,506 corpus weight
- IGP
IGP
55,504 corpus weight
- imposerait
imposerait
55,503 corpus weight
- impuni
impuni
55,502 corpus weight
- incantations
incantations
55,501 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « IGP » 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 | IGP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « IGP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IGP is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "ii", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #44,497 among 3,561 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for IGP in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "ii", "it", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 IGP, spelled I-G-P.
Definition
- 1Indication géographique protégée, label géographique décerné par l’Union européenne.
- 2Indication géographique protégée, label géographique décerné par la Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IGP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Privilégiez les fruits disposant d’une IGP : clémentines et pomelos de Corse, citrons de Menton ou de Syracuse, orange de Sicile.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).