mirage
\mi.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“mirage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,482
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phénomène dû à l’incurvation des rayons lumineux se réfléchissant sur les couches surchauffées de l’atmosphère voisines du sol et donnant souvent l’impression d’une réflexion sur une grande étendue...
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Index FR-mirage · mirage · French
mirage · rank #17,482 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,482
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minéral
Nearest frequency peer: minéral (-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 « mirage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marxisme
marxisme
82,522 corpus weight
- miniatures
miniatures
82,521 corpus weight
- minéral
minéral
82,520 corpus weight
- mirage
mirage
82,519 corpus weight
- Missouri
Missouri
82,518 corpus weight
- monastères
monastères
82,517 corpus weight
What this shows « mirage » 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 | mirage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mirage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around mirage (IPA \mi.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,482 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mirage, with forms such as "imrage", "miarge", and "miraeg". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "morale", "mitigé", "murale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mirage, spelled M-I-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Phénomène dû à l’incurvation des rayons lumineux se réfléchissant sur les couches surchauffées de l’atmosphère voisines du sol et donnant souvent l’impression d’une réflexion sur une grande étendue d’eau.
- 2Illusion trompeuse.
- 3Promesse trompeuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mirage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un autre phénomène de l’Égypte est celui du mirage, qui a été souvent décrit par des voyageurs trompés par l’apparence de grandes masses d’eau au milieu des sables. Quoique prévenu de cette illusion, j’avoue que j’y ai été trompé comme d’autres étrangers.
[…] que je ne sois pas jouée comme toutes ces pauvres femmes, par ce besoin lamentable de se tromper soi-même, par ces mirages qu’un absurde espoir élève sur l’immensité désolée de l’océan de sang.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imrage
- miarge
- miraeg
- miragge
- mirgae
- mirrage
- mmirage
- mriage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mirage - 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).