virage

\vi.ʁaʒ\

/\vi.ʁaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“virage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,920. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,920
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de faire tourner un véhicule, un avion, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-virage · virage · French

virage · rank #7,920 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,920
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH violet

Nearest frequency peer: violet (-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 « virage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « virage » 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).

virage vs vire
67% similar
virage vs vraie
67% similar
virage vs virée
67% similar

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

Key facts for virage
PropertyValue
Headwordvirage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.ʁaʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,920
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « virage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.viragese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « violet » (#7,919), « écraser » (#7,921), « violer » (#7,918). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « virage » est au #7,920. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around virage (IPA \vi.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,920 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for virage, with forms such as "ivrage", "viarge", and "viraeg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vire", "vraie", "virée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is virage, spelled V-I-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de faire tourner un véhicule, un avion, etc.
  2. 2
    Endroit où l’on tourne.
  3. 3
    Changement de politique, de dessein, de ligne de pensée.
  4. 4
    Action de virer de bord.
  5. 5
    Opération par laquelle on trempe une épreuve dans une dissolution de sels d’or, de platine, etc., pour lui donner sa couleur et son intensité définitive.
  6. 6
    Partie des tribunes d’un stade en arc de cercle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Prendre un bon, un mauvais virage.
  2. Le gamin de 15 ans qui m’a renversé m’a dit qu’il ne l’avait pas fait exprès mais, lorsqu’on manie ce genre d’engin, on évite de rouler sur la voie de gauche dans un virage.

This word in other languages

turn(English)viraje(Español)Kurve(Deutsch)viragem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivrage
  • viarge
  • viraeg
  • viragge
  • virgae
  • virrage
  • vriage
  • vvirage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ivrage2viarge2viraeg2viragge1virgae2virrage1vriage2vvirage1
Edit distance from "virage"

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 "virage"?
"virage" is spelled V-I-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.ʁaʒ\.
What does "virage" mean?
As a noun, "virage" means: Action de faire tourner un véhicule, un avion, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "virage"?
"virage" is commonly confused with "vire", "vraie", "virée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "virage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "virage" is \vi.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "virage" come from?
"virage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

violet#7,919violer#7,918talons#7,906sortez#7,903

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

aiguille8 variantsclark8 variantspoules8 variantsfonder8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list