stage

\staʒ\

/\staʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“stage” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,598
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période de travail auprès d’un employeur, effectuée à des fins de formation et faisant partie intégrante d’un cursus scolaire ou de l’enseignement supérieur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stage · stage · French

stage · rank #2,598 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,598
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spécialiste

Nearest frequency peer: spécialiste (-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 « stage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « stage » 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).

stage vs ste
60% similar
stage vs Star
40% similar
stage vs stan
60% similar

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

Key facts for stage
PropertyValue
Headwordstage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\staʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,598
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).stagese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « spécialiste » (#2,597), « simples » (#2,596), « tom » (#2,600). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stage » est au #2,598. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around stage (IPA \staʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,598 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for stage, with forms such as "satge", "sstage", and "staeg". 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, "ste", "Star", "stan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 stage, spelled S-T-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Période de travail auprès d’un employeur, effectuée à des fins de formation et faisant partie intégrante d’un cursus scolaire ou de l’enseignement supérieur.
  2. 2
    Période de préparation par laquelle doivent passer ceux qui aspirent à certaines professions, pour être admis à les exercer.
  3. 3
    Période pendant laquelle une personne doit attendre avant de formuler une demande ou de bénéficier d'un droit.
  4. 4
    Situation d’un fonctionnaire recruté mais pas encore titularisé.
  5. 5
    Période pendant laquelle on s’exerce à un hobby.
  6. 6
    Séance de sensibilisation civique imposée comme peine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Faire un stage en entreprise.
  2. Ce jeune homme avait déjà fait un stage de ce genre auprès d’un des ministres tombés en 1827 ; mais le ministre avait eu soin de le placer à la Cour des Comptes.

This word in other languages

internship(English)práctica(Español)Praktikum(Deutsch)estágio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • satge
  • sstage
  • staeg
  • stagge
  • stgae
  • sttage
  • tsage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

satge2sstage1staeg2stagge1stgae2sttage1tsage2
Edit distance from "stage"

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 "stage"?
"stage" is spelled S-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \staʒ\.
What does "stage" mean?
As a noun, "stage" means: Période de travail auprès d’un employeur, effectuée à des fins de formation et faisant partie intégrante d’un cursus scolaire ou de l’enseignement supérieur.
What words are commonly confused with "stage"?
"stage" is commonly confused with "ste", "Star", "stan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stage" is \staʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stage" come from?
"stage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

actif#2,606jeter#2,582foule#2,616Grèce#2,619

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

poisson7 variantshauts7 variantsdevez7 variantscommis7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list