wagon

/\va.ɡɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,689

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

wagon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule sur rails employé par les chemins de fer pour transporter des marchandises ou des voyageurs. Pronounced \va.ɡɔ̃\. Often confused with wan and won.

Key facts for wagon
PropertyValue
Headwordwagon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\va.ɡɔ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,689
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of wagon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for wagon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.ɡɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,689 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 wagon, with forms such as "awgon", "waggon", and "wagno". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "wan", "won", "wahou", 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 wagon, spelled W-A-G-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Véhicule sur rails employé par les chemins de fer pour transporter des marchandises ou des voyageurs.
  2. 2
    Vieille femme usée par la débauche.
  3. 3
    Dans une course hippique, groupe de chevaux qui se suivent en file indienne.
  4. 4
    Chariot hippomobile.
  5. 5
    Bloc creux de ciment ou de terre cuite que l'on empile les uns sur les autres pour former, dans l'épaisseur d'un mur, un conduit de cheminée, contrairement au boisseau qui lui est appuyé contre le mur.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: awgon,waggon,wagno,wagonn,waogn,wgaon,wwagon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wagon

Misspelling Variants of "wagon"

awgon5waggon6wagno5wagonn6waogn5wgaon5wwagon6
Misspelling Variants of "wagon"

Frequency rank: #11,689 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wagon"?
"wagon" is spelled W-A-G-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \va.ɡɔ̃\.
What does "wagon" mean?
As a noun, "wagon" means: Véhicule sur rails employé par les chemins de fer pour transporter des marchandises ou des voyageurs.
What words are commonly confused with "wagon"?
"wagon" is commonly confused with "wan", "won", "wahou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "wagon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wagon" is \va.ɡɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wagon" come from?
"wagon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.