adoubement
\a.du.bə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“adoubement” is uncommon French (frequency #88,279 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,279
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cérémonie au cours de laquelle on fait d’un homme un chevalier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adoubement · adoubement · French
adoubement · rank #88,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,279
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adie
Nearest frequency peer: adie (-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 « adoubement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Adamson
Adamson
11,726 corpus weight
- addictologie
addictologie
11,725 corpus weight
- adie
adie
11,724 corpus weight
- adoubement
adoubement
11,722 corpus weight
- Aesa
Aesa
11,720 corpus weight
- affaler
affaler
11,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adoubement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adoubement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.du.bə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adoubement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adoubement is uncommon French at frequency #88,279 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.du.bə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
adoubement has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is adoubement, spelled A-D-O-U-B-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Cérémonie au cours de laquelle on fait d’un homme un chevalier.
- 2Réparation d'un navire, d'une galère, adoubage, voir adouber, radouber et radoubement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adoubement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On entre en chevalerie par l'adoubement, cérémonie de remise des armes au futur chevalier, assortie parfois de déclarations éthiques et de bénédictions liturgiques.
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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