parages
\pa.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“parages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,930
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parages · parages · French
parages · rank #19,930 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,930
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panthère
Nearest frequency peer: panthère (-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 « parages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pam
pam
80,074 corpus weight
- pandémie
pandémie
80,073 corpus weight
- panthère
panthère
80,072 corpus weight
- parages
parages
80,071 corpus weight
- paranoïa
paranoïa
80,070 corpus weight
- partitions
partitions
80,069 corpus weight
What this shows « parages » 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 | parages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around parages (IPA \pa.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,930 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for parages, with forms such as "aprages", "paarges", and "paraegs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "parés", "parles", "plages", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is parages, spelled P-A-R-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Région maritime.
- 2Région terrestre.
- 3Alentours, voisinage, endroit où l’on est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle dérivait du côté de ces parages inconnus où se forment les banquises !
J’exprimai le désir d’aller faire un tour à Londres pour […] me procurer les renseignements les plus positifs et les plus authentiques touchant les découvertes récemment opérées dans les parages antarctiques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprages
- paarges
- paraegs
- paragess
- paragges
- paragse
- pargaes
- parrages
- pparages
- praages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parages - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).