lavage
\la.vaʒ\
The verdict
“lavage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,243
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de laver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavage · lavage · French
lavage · rank #11,243 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,243
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lake
Nearest frequency peer: lake (-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 « lavage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Keith
Keith
88,761 corpus weight
- know
know
88,760 corpus weight
- lake
lake
88,759 corpus weight
- lavage
lavage
88,758 corpus weight
- LCI
LCI
88,757 corpus weight
- leadership
leadership
88,756 corpus weight
What this shows « lavage » 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 | lavage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lavage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lavage (IPA \la.vaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,243 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lavage, with forms such as "alvage", "laavge", and "lavaeg". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "lave", "Laval", "lavée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lavage, spelled L-A-V-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de laver.
- 2Action de nettoyer.
- 3Nettoyage d’un organe au moyen d’irrigations.
- 4Opération qui consiste à laver le minerai pour séparer de la partie terreuse et pierreuse la partie propre à être fondue.
- 5Dessuintage.
- 6Linge sale accumulé pour qu'on le lave; action de laver les vêtements (spécifiquement), lessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lavage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prélavez le textile, qui tend à rétrécir au lavage, et prenez en compte ce facteur au moment de votre achat : le retrait du denim peut être important.
Le lavage des vitres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alvage
- laavge
- lavaeg
- lavagge
- lavgae
- lavvage
- llavage
- lvaage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lavage - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lavage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).