reggae
\ʁe.ɡe\
The verdict
“reggae” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,964
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style de musique jamaïcain apparu dans les années 1960.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reggae · reggae · French
reggae · rank #19,964 · 6 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,964
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rectification
Nearest frequency peer: rectification (-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 « reggae »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reconstruit
reconstruit
80,040 corpus weight
- recouverts
recouverts
80,039 corpus weight
- rectificati…
rectification
80,038 corpus weight
- reggae
reggae
80,037 corpus weight
- remerciement
remerciement
80,036 corpus weight
- ren
ren
80,035 corpus weight
What this shows « reggae » 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 | reggae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reggae »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around reggae (IPA \ʁe.ɡe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,964 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Style de musique jamaïcain apparu dans les années 1960.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for reggae, with forms such as "erggae", "regae", and "regage". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "réglé", "réglée", "regime", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is reggae, spelled R-E-G-G-A-E.
Definition
- 1Style de musique jamaïcain apparu dans les années 1960.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reggae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’écoutais le reggae chez moi. À cette époque, beaucoup de gens confondaient les rastamen, leur musique et la drogue. Le reggae, pour la plupart, c’est la drogue.
L’intégration de langues autochtones dans la musique contemporaine participe de la fierté de jeunes Amérindiens. Dub kali’na, R’n’B teko, reggae wayana… comptent aujourd’hui parmi les tubes guyanais.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erggae
- regae
- regage
- reggea
- rgegae
- rreggae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reggae - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).