ombrage
\ɔ̃.bʁaʒ\
The verdict
“ombrage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,064
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des branches et des feuilles des arbres, qui produit de l’ombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ombrage · ombrage · French
ombrage · rank #29,064 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,064
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orfèvres
Nearest frequency peer: orfèvres (+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 « ombrage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Nikola
Nikola
70,941 corpus weight
- négociateurs
négociateurs
70,939 corpus weight
- ombrage
ombrage
70,937 corpus weight
- orfèvres
orfèvres
70,936 corpus weight
- ottomans
ottomans
70,935 corpus weight
- parlions
parlions
70,934 corpus weight
What this shows « ombrage » 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 | ombrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.bʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ombrage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ombrage (IPA \ɔ̃.bʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,064 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ombrage, with forms such as "mobrage", "obmrage", and "ombarge". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ombre", "orage", "ouvrage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ombrage, spelled O-M-B-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des branches et des feuilles des arbres, qui produit de l’ombre.
- 2Ombre donnée par cet ensemble de feuillage.
- 3Malaise provenant de la crainte d’être éclipsé par une autre personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ombrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était là, oui là, sous ces ombrages propices au doux repos et aux austères méditations que tous les jours, tous les matins, de dix heures à midi, les couples revenant du marché s’arrêtaient et faisaient des stations, des stations… trop longues pour être honnêtes.
Les experts ne contredisent pas cet effet : les arbres permettraient de gagner jusqu’à 7 °C entre le milieu de la rue et leur ombrage, d'après une étude scientifique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mobrage
- obmrage
- ombarge
- ombbrage
- ombraeg
- ombragge
- ombrgae
- ombrrage
- ommbrage
- omrbage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ombrage - 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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Same letter count
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