verge
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,803
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
verge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Baguette longue et flexible, de bois ou de métal. Pronounced \vɛʁʒ\. Often confused with vers and Vert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for verge is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,803 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 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 verge, with forms such as "evrge", "vegre", and "vereg". 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, "vers", "Vert", "vire", 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 verge, spelled V-E-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Baguette longue et flexible, de bois ou de métal.
- 2Menus brins de bouleau, de genêt, d’osier, etc. liés ensemble avec lesquels on fouette ou fustige.
- 3Baguette, ordinairement garnie d’ivoire ou d’argent, qui est l’insigne des fonctions des bedeaux et de certains huissiers.
- 4Organe sexuel masculin ; pénis.
- 5Sorte d’épée utilisée au Moyen Âge.
- 6Anneau sans chaton.
- 7Pièce droite qui réunit les pattes de l’ancre à l’organeau.
- 8Ancienne mesure agraire française valant le quart d’un arpent.
- 9Yard. Unité de mesure de la distance ou de la longueur (système impérial britannique), valant trois pieds, encore utilisée aux États-Unis, définie comme exactement 0,9144 mètre depuis 1959. Le symbole est yd (international) ou vg (au Canada francophone).
- 10Baguette à laquelle on attache une fusée volante.
- 11Tige ou tringle droite, plus ou moins longue, ordinairement métallique.
- 12Pivot sur lequel se meut le balancier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrge,vegre,vereg,vergge,verrge,vrege,vverge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for verge
Misspelling Variants of "verge"
Frequency rank: #24,803 in French
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