alésage
\a.le.zaʒ\
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
- Aleksandar
Aleksandar
41,607 corpus weight
- altèrent
altèrent
41,604 corpus weight
- alésage
alésage
41,603 corpus weight
- amb
amb
41,602 corpus weight
- Ambert
Ambert
41,601 corpus weight
- ampères
ampères
41,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alésage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alésage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.le.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alésage » en français
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
- 1Action d’aléser.
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3Diamètre interne du cylindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alésage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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
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.
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