Wagner
\vag.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“Wagner” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,714
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille allemand, alsacien ou lorrain, surtout connu par le compositeur Richard Wagner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wagner · Wagner · French
Wagner · rank #13,714 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,714
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH want
Nearest frequency peer: want (+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 « Wagner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- victorieux
victorieux
86,290 corpus weight
- vivantes
vivantes
86,289 corpus weight
- Wagner
Wagner
86,287 corpus weight
- want
want
86,286 corpus weight
- ward
ward
86,285 corpus weight
- Warner
Warner
86,284 corpus weight
What this shows « Wagner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Wagner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vag.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Wagner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Wagner (IPA \vag.nɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,714 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille allemand, alsacien ou lorrain, surtout connu par le compositeur Richard Wagner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wagner, with forms such as "awgner", "wagenr", and "waggner". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Wayne", "water", "Walter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Wagner, spelled W-A-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille allemand, alsacien ou lorrain, surtout connu par le compositeur Richard Wagner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wagner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui-même n’avait qu’une vague idée de ce qui suivait le grégorien, et, s’ils s’entendaient encore sur Bach, ils étaient loin d’être d’accord sur Wagner par exemple, qu’il trouvait, lui, assommant, sans parler de tout le tralala des livrets.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awgner
- wagenr
- waggner
- wagnerr
- wagnner
- wagnre
- wanger
- wganer
- wwagner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wagner - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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