sillage

\si.jaʒ\

/\si.jaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“sillage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,483
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trace que fait un bateau lorsqu’il navigue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sillage · sillage · French

sillage · rank #16,483 · 8 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,483
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH seuils

Nearest frequency peer: seuils (-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 « sillage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sillage » 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).

sillage vs soulagé
57% similar
sillage vs syllabe
71% similar

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

Key facts for sillage
PropertyValue
Headwordsillage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.jaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,483
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sillage »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « seuils » (#16,482), « servirait » (#16,481), « soulagé » (#16,485). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sillage » est au #16,483. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around sillage (IPA \si.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,483 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sillage, with forms such as "isllage", "silage", and "silalge". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "soulagé", "syllabe", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sillage, spelled S-I-L-L-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trace que fait un bateau lorsqu’il navigue.
  2. 2
    Trace que fait un bateau lorsqu’il navigue.
  3. 3
    Empreinte olfactive qu'une personne parfumée laisse derrière elle après son passage.
  4. 4
    Trace ; sillon, voie qu’a ouverte quelqu’un.
  5. 5
    Ce qui suit quelque chose de près, comme une conséquence.
  6. 6
    Chemin prévu, voie tracée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La friction du vent sous l’enveloppe produisait une série intermittente de rides et de petits claquements : on eût cru, en moins fort, le bruit du sillage à l’avant d’un bateau.
  2. Il est toujours imprudent d’approcher d’un ice-berg ; le centre de gravité peut être déplacé par la fusion de la partie submergée ; soit spontanément, soit sous la faible impulsion du sillage, l’énorme construction, en équilibre instable, éclate ou chavire.

Synonyms

houaichehouacheouageouaicheacade

This word in other languages

wake(English)estela(Español)Kielwasser(Deutsch)esteira(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • isllage
  • silage
  • silalge
  • sillaeg
  • sillagge
  • sillgae
  • slilage
  • ssillage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

isllage2silage1silalge2sillaeg2sillagge1sillgae2slilage2ssillage1
Edit distance from "sillage"

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 "sillage"?
"sillage" is spelled S-I-L-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.jaʒ\.
What does "sillage" mean?
As a noun, "sillage" means: Trace que fait un bateau lorsqu’il navigue.
What words are commonly confused with "sillage"?
"sillage" is commonly confused with "soulagé", "syllabe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sillage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sillage" is \si.jaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sillage" come from?
"sillage" 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 "sillage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

soulagé#16,485sachent#16,474tactile#16,492Sabrina#16,473

Similar misspelling depth

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

seuils8 variantssandy8 variantsTeresa8 variantstrolls8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list