nageuse
\na.ʒøz\
The verdict
“nageuse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,031. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,031
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui nage, qui sait nager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nageuse · nageuse · French
nageuse · rank #43,031 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,031
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nadège
Nearest frequency peer: Nadège (-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 « nageuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mégarde
mégarde
56,972 corpus weight
- Nadège
Nadège
56,971 corpus weight
- nageuse
nageuse
56,970 corpus weight
- Neutron
Neutron
56,969 corpus weight
- Nicosie
Nicosie
56,968 corpus weight
- noyers
noyers
56,967 corpus weight
What this shows « nageuse » 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 | nageuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.ʒøz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nageuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around nageuse (IPA \na.ʒøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,031 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui nage, qui sait nager.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nageuse, with forms such as "angeuse", "naeguse", and "nagesue". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nages", "nageur", "nageurs", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 nageuse, spelled N-A-G-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui nage, qui sait nager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nageuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, vive les reines : devant moi j’aperçois par intermittence, dans les spirales d’un nuage de bulles, les fesses bombées d’une nageuse au maillot échancré qui trace sans trop se poser de questions, petite fusée sexy.
Aux championnats d’Europe en petit bassin les nageuses françaises Charlotte Bonnet et Béryl Gastaldello ont pris l’or et l’argent, jeudi en Roumanie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- angeuse
- naeguse
- nagesue
- nageues
- nageusse
- naggeuse
- naguese
- ngaeuse
- nnageuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nageuse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).