phalange
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,827
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
phalange is aFrenchnoun. It means: Formation de combat d’infanterie utilisée par les Sumériens, puis en Grèce antique et Macédoine jusqu’au IIᵉ siècle avant J.-C. Corps de piquiers pesamment armés qui combattaient sur quatre, huit, ... Pronounced \fa.lɑ̃ʒ\. Often confused with phalanges.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phalange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.lɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phalange is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.lɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,827 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for phalange, with forms such as "hpalange", "pahlange", and "phaalnge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "phalanges", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is phalange, spelled P-H-A-L-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formation de combat d’infanterie utilisée par les Sumériens, puis en Grèce antique et Macédoine jusqu’au IIᵉ siècle avant J.-C. Corps de piquiers pesamment armés qui combattaient sur quatre, huit, douze, seize rangs de profondeur et plus.
- 2Corps de troupes.
- 3Groupement paramilitaire d'extrême-droite.
- 4Dans les travaux de Charles Fourier, groupe vivant en communauté au sein d’un phalanstère.
- 5Groupe de personnes réunies dans un même pupitre ou un ensemble instrumental homogène.
- 6Groupe de personnes étroitement uni par un intérêt commun.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hpalange,pahlange,phaalnge,phalagne,phalaneg,phalangge,phalannge,phallange,phalnage,phhalange,phlaange,pphalange
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Misspelling Variants of "phalange"
Frequency rank: #33,827 in French
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