infrarouge
\ɛ̃.fʁa.ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“infrarouge” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,564. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,564
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont la longueur d’onde est plus longue que celles de la lumière visible dans le spectre électromagnétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infrarouge · infrarouge · French
infrarouge · rank #19,564 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,564
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH induction
Nearest frequency peer: induction (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « infrarouge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- immédiats
immédiats
80,440 corpus weight
- import
import
80,439 corpus weight
- induction
induction
80,438 corpus weight
- infrarouge
infrarouge
80,437 corpus weight
- innovant
innovant
80,436 corpus weight
- interminabl…
interminables
80,435 corpus weight
What this shows « infrarouge » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | infrarouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fʁa.ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infrarouge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around infrarouge (IPA \ɛ̃.fʁa.ʁuʒ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,564 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dont la longueur d’onde est plus longue que celles de la lumière visible dans le spectre électromagnétique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for infrarouge, with forms such as "ifnrarouge", "infarrouge", and "inffrarouge". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "infrarouges", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is infrarouge, spelled I-N-F-R-A-R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Dont la longueur d’onde est plus longue que celles de la lumière visible dans le spectre électromagnétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how infrarouge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bizarrement, la mode des séances de spiritisme avec déplacements de lourdes tables et apparitions et matérialisations « d’ectoplasmes » perdit beaucoup de sa popularité à peu près à la même époque où la compagnie Kodak mis sur le marché son premier film sensible aux rayons infrarouges.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnrarouge
- infarrouge
- inffrarouge
- infraoruge
- infrarogue
- infraroueg
- infrarougge
- infrarrouge
- infraruoge
- infrraouge
- infrrarouge
- innfrarouge
- inrfarouge
- nifrarouge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infrarouge - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).