pagevspogoConfusable pair

Which to use

“page” and “pogo” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#850
“page” frequency rank
#48,112
“pogo” frequency rank
48962
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature page pogo
Definition Face d’une feuille de papier, de parchemin, de vélin, servant à l’écriture ou à l’impression. Danse et bousculade lors de concerts de rock où tout le monde saute et se pousse les uns contre les autres.

Where the eye mixes page and pogo

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. page and pogo follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
page
4 ch
pogo

Why the eye confuses page with pogo

A purely visual mix-up. page (\paʒ\) and pogo (\po.ɡo\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48962, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

page is recorded at frequency rank #850, classified as anoun, pronounced \paʒ\. pogo is at rank #48,112, tagged as anoun, pronounced \po.ɡo\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 48962, this pair ranks #174,631 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of page vs pogo

Shared letters: gp. Private to "page": ae. Private to "pogo": o.

"page" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "pogo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • page ← apge · paeg · pagge · pgae · ppage
  • pogo ← opgo · pgoo · poggo · poog · ppogo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "page" for "pogo" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\paʒ\ versus \po.ɡo\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "page" or "pogo"?
"page" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #850 in our French list, against #48,112 for "pogo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "page" and "pogo" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "page" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pogo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #174,631 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "page" and "pogo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pio vs pogo". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #174,631 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list