stage
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,598
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
stage is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \staʒ\. It ranks #2,598 in French word frequency. Often confused with ste and Star.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \staʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for stage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \staʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,598 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for stage, with forms such as "satge", "sstage", and "staeg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is stage, spelled S-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Période 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.
- 2Période de préparation par laquelle doivent passer ceux qui aspirent à certaines professions, pour être admis à les exercer.
- 3Période pendant laquelle une personne doit attendre avant de formuler une demande ou de bénéficier d'un droit.
- 4Situation d’un fonctionnaire recruté mais pas encore titularisé.
- 5Période pendant laquelle on s’exerce à un hobby.
- 6Séance de sensibilisation civique imposée comme peine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satge,sstage,staeg,stagge,stgae,sttage,tsage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stage
Misspelling Variants of "stage"
Frequency rank: #2,598 in French
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