ridge
\ɹɪdʒ\
The verdict
“ridge” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,121
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crête, ligne d’intersection élevée entre deux surfaces inclinées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ridge · ridge · French
ridge · rank #29,121 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,121
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reyes
Nearest frequency peer: reyes (-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 « ridge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retransmiss…
retransmission
70,883 corpus weight
- revend
revend
70,882 corpus weight
- reyes
reyes
70,881 corpus weight
- ridge
ridge
70,880 corpus weight
- rivera
rivera
70,879 corpus weight
- Rodrigue
Rodrigue
70,877 corpus weight
What this shows « ridge » 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 | ridge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪdʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ridge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ridge (IPA \ɹɪdʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,121 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ridge, with forms such as "irdge", "rdige", and "riddge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rie", "rig", "rire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 ridge, spelled R-I-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1Crête, ligne d’intersection élevée entre deux surfaces inclinées.
- 2Faîte d’un toit.
- 3Chaîne de montagnes, ou de collines.
- 4Dorsale au fond de l’océan.
- 5Dorsale barométrique.
- 6Dos d’un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ridge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They live just over the ridge, in that direction.
The leak is coming from near the ridge of the roof, where the two sides come together.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irdge
- rdige
- riddge
- rideg
- ridgge
- rigde
- rridge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ridge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).