Lesage
\lə.saʒ\
The verdict
“Lesage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,079
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lesage · Lesage · French
Lesage · rank #26,079 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,079
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lean
Nearest frequency peer: lean (-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 « Lesage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- KGB
KGB
73,925 corpus weight
- laitier
laitier
73,924 corpus weight
- lean
lean
73,923 corpus weight
- Lesage
Lesage
73,922 corpus weight
- LM
LM
73,921 corpus weight
- Lombardie
Lombardie
73,920 corpus weight
What this shows « Lesage » 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 | Lesage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lesage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Lesage (IPA \lə.saʒ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,079 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lesage, with forms such as "elsage", "leasge", and "lesaeg". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "leste", "Leslie", "létale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Lesage, spelled L-E-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lesage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le festival s’achèvera, mercredi, sur un florilège de quatuors avec hautbois au temps de Mozart, interprété par Neven Lesage (hautbois), Louis Creac’h (violon), Camille Rancière (alto) et Gauthier Broutin (violoncelle).
Dans les années 1960, le chef libéral Jean Lesage avait réussi à rapatrier plusieurs de ces « points » d’impôt.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elsage
- leasge
- lesaeg
- lesagge
- lesgae
- lessage
- llesage
- lseage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lesage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).