aérage
\a.e.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“aérage” is uncommon French (frequency #80,895 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,895
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’aérer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aerage · aérage · French
aérage · rank #80,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,895
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Ayo
Nearest frequency peer: Ayo (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aérage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avicole
avicole
19,110 corpus weight
- axillaires
axillaires
19,109 corpus weight
- Ayo
Ayo
19,107 corpus weight
- aérage
aérage
19,106 corpus weight
- badia
badia
19,104 corpus weight
- bahar
bahar
19,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aérage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aérage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.e.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aérage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aérage is uncommon French at frequency #80,895 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.e.ʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
aérage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aérage, spelled A-É-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’aérer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Technique de renouvellement de l’air dans les tunnels, les galeries souterraines et les mines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aérage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aérage se fait alors par la partie demi-circulaire du châssis qui est mobile et par la lanterne supérieure, […].
L’aérage est une condition de première nécessité, car la respiration des ouvriers, la combustion des lumières et le tirage des coups de mine ne tarderaient pas à vicier l'air.
Synonyms
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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