mage

\maʒ\

/\maʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“mage” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,491
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prêtre de la religion de Zoroastre, chez les Perses et les Mèdes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mage · mage · French

mage · rank #20,491 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,491
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maestro

Nearest frequency peer: maestro (-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 « mage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mage vs me
50% similar
mage vs Mg
25% similar
mage vs mal
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mage
PropertyValue
Headwordmage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʒ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#20,491
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).magese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « maestro » (#20,490), « majoration » (#20,492), « M1 » (#20,489). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mage » est au #20,491. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around mage (IPA \maʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,491 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mage, with forms such as "amge", "maeg", and "magge". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "Mg", "mal", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mage, spelled M-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prêtre de la religion de Zoroastre, chez les Perses et les Mèdes.
  2. 2
    L'un des Rois mages qui seraient venus de l’Orient à Bethléem pour adorer Jésus-Christ.
  3. 3
    Astrologue ; devin ; spécialiste des sciences occultes et de la prédiction de l’avenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il s'agit de la Perse primitive. Les textes, quoique confus, laissent pourtant distinguer trois âges, le patriarcal, celui où le prêtre apparaît, enfin l'âge où le magisme médo-caldéen se greffe sur la Perse. — Les mages ne furent pas proprement une caste, mais une tribu. Le magisme ne s'organise guère qu'après la conquête de Babylone.
  2. Sans remonter au Déluge, l'évaluation des récits bibliques à l’aune de la science ne date pas d'hier. Elle est même vieille comme Hérode. Mais l'« étoile » des Mages est sans doute l'évènement qui a le plus fait calculer les astronomes.

Synonyms

astrologuedevinmaraboutvoyant

This word in other languages

mage(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amge
  • maeg
  • magge
  • mgae
  • mmage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mage - 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.

amge2maeg2magge1mgae2mmage1
Edit distance from "mage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mage"?
"mage" is spelled M-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \maʒ\.
What does "mage" mean?
As a noun, "mage" means: Prêtre de la religion de Zoroastre, chez les Perses et les Mèdes.
What words are commonly confused with "mage"?
"mage" is commonly confused with "me", "Mg", "mal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mage" is \maʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lock#20,485Gaël#20,454gall#20,453gale#20,452

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

samu5 variantsvega5 variantsCarrie5 variantsaway5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list