œsophage
\e.zɔ.faʒ\
The verdict
“œsophage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,678
- frequency rank, French
- 21
- “Œ” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal musculo-membraneux qui s’étend du fond de la bouche (le pharynx) jusqu’à l’orifice supérieur de l’estomac (le cardia), dans lequel il conduit les aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sophage · œsophage · French
œsophage · rank #36,678 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 21
- PHOTO-FINISH étrangle
Nearest frequency peer: étrangle (-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 « œsophage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- énumération
énumération
63,327 corpus weight
- épuisées
épuisées
63,326 corpus weight
- étouffante
étouffante
63,325 corpus weight
- étrangle
étrangle
63,324 corpus weight
- œsophage
œsophage
63,323 corpus weight
- accueillants
accueillants
63,318 corpus weight
What this shows « œsophage » 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 | œsophage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.zɔ.faʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « œsophage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around œsophage (IPA \e.zɔ.faʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,678 among 21 “Œ” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Canal musculo-membraneux qui s’étend du fond de la bouche (le pharynx) jusqu’à l’orifice supérieur de l’estomac (le cardia), dans lequel il conduit les aliments.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for œsophage, with forms such as "sœophage", "œosphage", and "œsohpage". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Sophie", "soulagé", "soudage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is œsophage, spelled Œ-S-O-P-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Canal musculo-membraneux qui s’étend du fond de la bouche (le pharynx) jusqu’à l’orifice supérieur de l’estomac (le cardia), dans lequel il conduit les aliments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how œsophage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’œsophage. Il s’agit d’un tube allant de la bouche à l’estomac. La paroi de l’œsophage est tapissée de muscles qui se contractent pour pousser les aliments dans l’estomac.
Je t’étonne si je te dis que la bouffe est prise en charge par les muscles de l’œsophage – prononcer « ésophage », ne me demande pas pourquoi, prononce et ferme ta gueule – puis ceux – hyperpuissants de l’estomac, puis ceux de l’intestin, les « péristaltiques », puis enfin ceux, formidables, du trou du cul, qui sont un sphincter, retiens bien ce mot, on n…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sœophage
- œosphage
- œsohpage
- œsopahge
- œsophaeg
- œsophagge
- œsophgae
- œsophhage
- œsopphage
- œspohage
- œssophage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of œsophage - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).