image
\i.maʒ\
The verdict
“image” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #655 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #655
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Représentation d’êtres ou d’objets par le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure, la photographie, le cinéma, etc.
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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for image is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 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.
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.
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Using “image”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-M-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \i.maʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “IMG” - see the side-by-side comparison. image vs IMG
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.