outrage
\u.tʁaʒ\
The verdict
“outrage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,454. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,454
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Injure grave de fait ou de parole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outrage · outrage · French
outrage · rank #15,454 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,454
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orlando
Nearest frequency peer: orlando (-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 « outrage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- occupera
occupera
84,550 corpus weight
- oie
oie
84,549 corpus weight
- orlando
orlando
84,548 corpus weight
- outrage
outrage
84,547 corpus weight
- paralysie
paralysie
84,546 corpus weight
- passais
passais
84,545 corpus weight
What this shows « outrage » 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 | outrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.tʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « outrage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around outrage (IPA \u.tʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,454 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for outrage, with forms such as "oturage", "ourtage", and "outarge". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "outré", "outrée", "ouvrage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is outrage, spelled O-U-T-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Injure grave de fait ou de parole.
- 2Tort, dommage, atteinte physique causé(e) aux êtres ou aux choses.
- 3Outrages (du temps, de la vieillesse).
- 4Violences sexuelles, viol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Craignant de nouveaux outrages à Henri IV, j’ordonnai qu’il fût porté dans la fosse commune ; mais, jusque-là, le cadavre fut accompagné de marques de respect.
Or, des outrages par paroles, des actes ou des gestes contumélieux, non accompagnés de voies de fait, peuvent produire ce résultat, autant et plus même que les violences physiques. Les atteintes dirigées contre l'honneur et la réputation sont parfois autrement graves que ne le seraient des attaques corporelles ; l'indignation qu'elles soulèvent est aussi…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturage
- ourtage
- outarge
- outraeg
- outragge
- outrgae
- outrrage
- outtrage
- uotrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of outrage - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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