rouage
\ʁwaʒ\
The verdict
“rouage” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,518
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément de roue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouage · rouage · French
rouage · rank #39,518 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,518
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rotule
Nearest frequency peer: rotule (-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 « rouage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Romy
Romy
60,487 corpus weight
- rotatif
rotatif
60,485 corpus weight
- rotule
rotule
60,484 corpus weight
- rouage
rouage
60,483 corpus weight
- rule
rule
60,480 corpus weight
- réfraction
réfraction
60,479 corpus weight
What this shows « rouage » 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 | rouage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁwaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rouage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rouage (IPA \ʁwaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,518 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 rouage, with forms such as "oruage", "roauge", and "rouaeg". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "roué", "route", "rouge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 rouage, spelled R-O-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Élément de roue.
- 2Chacune des pièces qui concourent au fonctionnement d’une machine.
- 3Mécanisme à fonctionnement régulier et prévisible.
- 4Chaque élément participant au fonctionnement d’un ensemble.
- 5Paiement de la location des places occupées dans les foires ou les marchés par les marchands étrangers.
- 6Péage pour circuler sur les routes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rouage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bois de rouage, celui qu’on emploie à faire des roues.
Un rouage du moteur s’est brisé. Les rouages d’une montre, d’une locomotive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oruage
- roauge
- rouaeg
- rouagge
- rougae
- rrouage
- ruoage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rouage - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rouage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).