ménage
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,153
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ménage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gouvernement domestique et tout ce qui concerne la dépense et l’entretien d’une famille. Pronounced \me.naʒ\. It ranks #3,153 in French word frequency. Often confused with mené and meng.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ménage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ménage is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.naʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,153 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ménage, with forms such as "menage", "mménage", and "mnéage". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mené", "meng", "menée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ménage, spelled M-É-N-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gouvernement domestique et tout ce qui concerne la dépense et l’entretien d’une famille.
- 2Ensemble des personnes qui habitent sous un même toit et partagent les mêmes ressources.
- 3Se dit aussi des meubles et ustensiles nécessaires à un ménage.
- 4Soin qu’on donne à l’arrangement et à la propreté des meubles d’un appartement.
- 5Union formée par un couple, mariage ou vie commune.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: menage,mménage,mnéage,méange,ménaeg,ménagge,méngae,ménnage,émnage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ménage
Misspelling Variants of "ménage"
Frequency rank: #3,153 in French
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Nearby French words
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