ravage

\ʁa.vaʒ\

/\ʁa.vaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“ravage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,467
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de ravager.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ravage · ravage · French

ravage · rank #25,467 · 8 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,467
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rattacher

Nearest frequency peer: rattacher (-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 « ravage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « ravage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ravage vs rave
67% similar
ravage vs ravie
67% similar
ravage vs rivage
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ravage
PropertyValue
Headwordravage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.vaʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#25,467
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ravage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ravagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rattacher » (#25,466), « recevaient » (#25,468), « randonneurs » (#25,465). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « ravage » est au #25,467. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around ravage (IPA \ʁa.vaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,467 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ravage, with forms such as "arvage", "raavge", and "ravaeg". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "rave", "ravie", "rivage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ravage, spelled R-A-V-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de ravager.
  2. 2
    Dommage, dégât fait avec violence et rapidité.
  3. 3
    Dommages que causent les tempêtes, les orages, les pluies, les vents, les guerres, etc. ou même les maladies.
  4. 4
    Désordre que les passions causent.
  5. 5
    Endroit où les cerfs se regroupent pour affronter les rigueurs de l’hiver.
  6. 6
    Travail, industrie du ravageur (chiffonnier).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ravage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les Abaves, ces tribus de Huns toujours prêtes à se jeter sur la Thrace et la Grèce, ou sur l'Italie et les Lombards, continuèrent leurs ravages. L'empereur eut la faiblesse de leur promettre une somme assez forte, et dont le paiement devait être renouvelé chaque année, s'ils respectaient les frontières de l'empire.
  2. Les sangliers, les renards ont fait de grands ravages, beaucoup de ravage dans ce pays.

Synonyms

désastredestruction

This word in other languages

ravages(English)estrago(Español)Zerstörung(Deutsch)destruição(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arvage
  • raavge
  • ravaeg
  • ravagge
  • ravgae
  • ravvage
  • rravage
  • rvaage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ravage - 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.

arvage2raavge2ravaeg2ravagge1ravgae2ravvage1rravage1rvaage2
Edit distance from "ravage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ravage"?
"ravage" is spelled R-A-V-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.vaʒ\.
What does "ravage" mean?
As a noun, "ravage" means: Action de ravager.
What words are commonly confused with "ravage"?
"ravage" is commonly confused with "rave", "ravie", "rivage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ravage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ravage" is \ʁa.vaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ravage" come from?
"ravage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ravage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rampes#25,464racket#25,460Roanne#25,481puerto#25,450

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

print8 variantssavane8 variantssonnait8 variantsSétif8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list