upgrade
\œp.ɡʁad\
The verdict
“upgrade” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,934
- frequency rank, French
- 44,794
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de upgrader.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | upgrade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \œp.ɡʁad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “upgrade” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around upgrade (IPA \œp.ɡʁad\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,934 among 44,794 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for upgrade, with forms such as "pugrade", "ugprade", and "upgarde". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 upgrade, spelled U-P-G-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de upgrader.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de upgrader.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de upgrader.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de upgrader.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de upgrader.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pugrade,ugprade,upgarde,upggrade,upgradde,upgraed,upgrdae,upgrrade,uppgrade,uprgade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of upgrade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “upgrade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is U-P-G-R-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \œp.ɡʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.