mirages
\mi.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“mirages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,014. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,014
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mirage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mirages · mirages · French
mirages · rank #43,014 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,014
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mimosa
Nearest frequency peer: mimosa (-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 « mirages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- meur
meur
56,991 corpus weight
- mica
mica
56,990 corpus weight
- mimosa
mimosa
56,988 corpus weight
- mirages
mirages
56,987 corpus weight
- miron
miron
56,985 corpus weight
- mixture
mixture
56,984 corpus weight
What this shows « mirages » 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 | mirages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mirages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mirages (IPA \mi.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,014 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mirage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mirages, with forms such as "imrages", "miarges", and "miraegs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "mixage", "morales", "murales", 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 mirages, spelled M-I-R-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mirage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imrages
- miarges
- miraegs
- miragess
- miragges
- miragse
- mirgaes
- mirrages
- mmirages
- mriages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mirages - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).