IMG
\i ɛm ʒe\
The verdict
“IMG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,491) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,491
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avortement provoqué de manière médicale et assistée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-img · IMG · French
IMG · rank #43,491 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,491
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Ike
Nearest frequency peer: Ike (-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 « IMG »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ideas
ideas
56,512 corpus weight
- Ike
Ike
56,511 corpus weight
- IMG
IMG
56,510 corpus weight
- immaturité
immaturité
56,509 corpus weight
- implémenter
implémenter
56,508 corpus weight
- impute
impute
56,507 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « IMG » 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 | IMG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i ɛm ʒe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « IMG »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IMG is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "IP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \i ɛm ʒe\. Frequency #43,491 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Avortement provoqué de manière médicale et assistée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for IMG in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "IP", "ix", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 IMG, spelled I-M-G.
Definition
- 1Avortement provoqué de manière médicale et assistée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how IMG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’IMG ne doit pas être confondue avec l’IVG qui, elle, peut être pratiquée sans motif médical jusqu’à la douzième semaine de grossesse.
Il nous apparaît donc étonnant que l'option systématiquement privilégiée soit une IMG pratiquée rapidement après le dépistage de l'anomalie.
Synonyms
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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