wagon
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wagon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Véhicule sur rails employé par les chemins de fer pour transporter des marchandises ou des voyageurs.
- 2Vieille femme usée par la débauche.
- 3Dans une course hippique, groupe de chevaux qui se suivent en file indienne.
- 4Chariot hippomobile.
- 5Bloc 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"
Frequency rank: #11,689 in French
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