wage
\ˈvaːɡə\
The verdict
“wage” is uncommon French (frequency #88,224 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,224
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wagen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wage · wage · French
wage · rank #88,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,224
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vre
Nearest frequency peer: vre (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « wage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- volatilisée
volatilisée
11,781 corpus weight
- Vollard
Vollard
11,780 corpus weight
- vre
vre
11,779 corpus weight
- wage
wage
11,777 corpus weight
- Wesen
Wesen
11,775 corpus weight
- wicca
wicca
11,773 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈvaːɡə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wage is uncommon French at frequency #88,224 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈvaːɡə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is wage, spelled W-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de wagen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de wagen.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de wagen.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de wagen.
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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