pompage
\pɔ̃.paʒ\
The verdict
“pompage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,081
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité qui consiste à utiliser une pompe pour déplacer de la matière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pompage · pompage · French
pompage · rank #25,081 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH politics
Nearest frequency peer: politics (-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 « pompage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- playboy
playboy
74,923 corpus weight
- plénitude
plénitude
74,922 corpus weight
- politics
politics
74,921 corpus weight
- pompage
pompage
74,920 corpus weight
- pores
pores
74,919 corpus weight
- prenante
prenante
74,918 corpus weight
What this shows « pompage » 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 | pompage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.paʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pompage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pompage (IPA \pɔ̃.paʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,081 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pompage, with forms such as "opmpage", "pmopage", and "pomapge". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pompe", "pompée", "potage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pompage, spelled P-O-M-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Activité qui consiste à utiliser une pompe pour déplacer de la matière.
- 2Phénomène d’instabilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pompage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour nous, un béton facilement pompable est un béton qui ne forme pas de bouchons lors du pompage (et non pas celui qui se pompe à faible pression).
« Cet avis concernait précisément, l’émission de particules dans l’environnement provenant des travaux relatifs au projet de pompage de la rivière Lombrette pour le domaine skiable », explique dans un courriel la porte-parole pour Le Massif, Maude Barrette Desjardins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opmpage
- pmopage
- pomapge
- pommpage
- pompaeg
- pompagge
- pompgae
- pomppage
- popmage
- ppompage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pompage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).