ménager
\me.na.ʒe\
The verdict
“ménager” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,520
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui administre avec épargne, avec économie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menager · ménager · French
ménager · rank #14,520 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,520
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH nappe
Nearest frequency peer: nappe (+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 « ménager »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mosaïque
mosaïque
85,486 corpus weight
- moussa
moussa
85,484 corpus weight
- méditerrané…
méditerranéen
85,483 corpus weight
- ménager
ménager
85,481 corpus weight
- nappe
nappe
85,480 corpus weight
- obligeant
obligeant
85,477 corpus weight
What this shows « ménager » 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 | ménager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.na.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ménager »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ménager (IPA \me.na.ʒe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,520 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ménager, with forms such as "menager", "mménager", and "mnéager". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mener", "mendier", "messager", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 ménager, spelled M-É-N-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui administre avec épargne, avec économie.
- 2Qui administre la vie, la personne.
- 3Qui a rapport à l’administration du ménage, en parlant des choses.
- 4Relatif au ménage, ordre et propreté de la maison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ménager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme très ménager de ses deniers.
Il n’est pas assez ménager de son bien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- menager
- mménager
- mnéager
- méanger
- ménaegr
- ménagerr
- ménagger
- ménagre
- méngaer
- ménnager
- émnager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ménager - 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 "ménager", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).