image
\i.maʒ\
The verdict
“image” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #655
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-image · image · French
image · rank #655 · 6 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #655
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH facile
Nearest frequency peer: facile (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “image”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vieux
vieux
99,349 corpus weight
- connais
connais
99,348 corpus weight
- facile
facile
99,347 corpus weight
- image
image
99,346 corpus weight
- lien
lien
99,345 corpus weight
- mer
mer
99,344 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “image” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | image |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “image” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around image (IPA \i.maʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #655 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 14 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for image, with forms such as "iamge", "imaeg", and "imagge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "IMG", "ime", "imam", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is image, spelled I-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc.
- 2Représentations pour la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure de ce qui est l’objet d’un culte religieux.
- 3Représentation, 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.
- 4Estampe ordinairement gravée et coloriée plus ou moins grossièrement.
- 5Ressemblance.
- 6Copie exacte d’un élément. Objet qui se répète dans un miroir, dans l’eau, etc.
- 7Représentation mentale, instantanée, retrouvée et renouvelée par le souvenir des objets qui ont été perçus par l’esprit ou qui ont fait impression sur lui.
- 8Idée.
- 9Description, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
- 10Métaphore 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.
- 11Résultat du clonage d’un support numérique (disque dur, CD, DVD, etc.).
- 12D’un élément de l’ensemble de définition d’une application : l’élément que l’application lui fait correspondre dans l’ensemble de destination.
- 13D’une application ; ensemble des images des éléments de l’ensemble de définition.
- 14Point du plan associé à un nombre complexe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how image appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Image ressemblante, fidèle.
La preuve tout de suite en images. Voici la preuve, regardez la vidéo.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iamge
- imaeg
- imagge
- imgae
- immage
- miage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of image - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "image", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "image". Here's where to go from here.
- "image" maps to 12 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "IMG". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #655 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.