alésage

\a.le.zaʒ\

/\a.le.zaʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“alésage” is uncommon French (frequency #58,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,398
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’aléser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alesage · alésage · French

alésage · rank #58,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,398
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH altèrent

Nearest frequency peer: altèrent (-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 « alésage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alésage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for alésage
PropertyValue
Headwordalésage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.le.zaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#58,398
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « alésage » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.alésagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « altèrent » (#58,397), « amb » (#58,399), « Ambert » (#58,400). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « alésage » est au #58,398. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

alésage is uncommon French at frequency #58,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.le.zaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alésage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is alésage, spelled A-L-É-S-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’aléser.
  2. 2
    Résultat de cette action.
  3. 3
    Diamètre interne du cylindre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how alésage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'alésage manuel est un procédé d'usinage par enlèvement de copeau au moyen d'outils appelés alésoirs cette opération consiste à parfaire : - Les dimensions - L'état de surface - La rectitude des génératrices des trous de perçage
  2. Ce composant est construit dans un acier nitruré et l’alésage doit être usiné avec ces tolérances très étroites.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alésage"?
"alésage" is spelled A-L-É-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.le.zaʒ\.
What does "alésage" mean?
As a noun, "alésage" means: Action d’aléser.
How do you pronounce "alésage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alésage" is \a.le.zaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alésage" come from?
"alésage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alésage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list