stagiaire
\sta.ʒjɛʁ\
The verdict
“stagiaire” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #9,918 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #9,918
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui fait son stage.
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 | stagiaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sta.ʒjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stagiaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for stagiaire is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sta.ʒjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,918 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui fait son stage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for stagiaire, with forms such as "satgiaire", "sstagiaire", and "stagaiire". 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, "statuaire", "stagiaires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stagiaire, spelled S-T-A-G-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui fait son stage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satgiaire,sstagiaire,stagaiire,staggiaire,stagiaier,stagiairre,stagiarie,stagiiare,staigaire,stgaiaire,sttagiaire,tsagiaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stagiaire - 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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Using “stagiaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-A-G-I-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sta.ʒjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “statuaire” - see the side-by-side comparison. stagiaire vs statuaire
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.