image

/\i.maʒ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#655

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

image is aFrenchnoun. It means: Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc. Pronounced \i.maʒ\. It ranks #655 in French word frequency. Often confused with IMG and ime.

Key facts for image
PropertyValue
Headwordimage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.maʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#655
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of image in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for image is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.maʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #655 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for image, with forms such as "iamge", "imaeg", and "imagge". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "IMG", "ime", "imam", and more, 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 image, spelled I-M-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc.
  2. 2
    Représentations pour la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure de ce qui est l’objet d’un culte religieux.
  3. 3
    Représentation, projection d’un objet produite par la réunion des rayons ou faisceaux lumineux qui en émanent et se reconstituent sur un miroir, sur un écran ou sur l’œil qui perçoit cette image.
  4. 4
    Estampe ordinairement gravée et coloriée plus ou moins grossièrement.
  5. 5
    Ressemblance.
  6. 6
    Copie exacte d’un élément. Objet qui se répète dans un miroir, dans l’eau, etc.
  7. 7
    Représentation mentale, instantanée, retrouvée et renouvelée par le souvenir des objets qui ont été perçus par l’esprit ou qui ont fait impression sur lui.
  8. 8
    Idée.
  9. 9
    Description, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
  10. 10
    Métaphore par laquelle on rend une idée plus vive et plus sensible, en prêtant à l’objet dont on parle des formes, des apparences, des qualités empruntées à d’autres objets.
  11. 11
    Résultat du clonage d’un support numérique (disque dur, CD, DVD, etc.).
  12. 12
    D’un élément de l’ensemble de définition d’une application : l’élément que l’application lui fait correspondre dans l’ensemble de destination.
  13. 13
    D’une application ; ensemble des images des éléments de l’ensemble de définition.
  14. 14
    Point du plan associé à un nombre complexe.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iamge,imaeg,imagge,imgae,immage,miage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for image

Misspelling Variants of "image"

iamge5imaeg5imagge6imgae5immage6miage5
Misspelling Variants of "image"

Frequency rank: #655 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "image"?
"image" is spelled I-M-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.maʒ\.
What does "image" mean?
As a noun, "image" means: Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "image"?
"image" is commonly confused with "IMG", "ime", "imam". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "image"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "image" is \i.maʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "image" come from?
"image" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.