alpage
\al.paʒ\
The verdict
“alpage” is uncommon French (frequency #59,781 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,781
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâturage d’altitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpage · alpage · French
alpage · rank #59,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,781
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambient
Nearest frequency peer: ambient (+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 « alpage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ajouré
ajouré
40,224 corpus weight
- alertée
alertée
40,222 corpus weight
- alpage
alpage
40,220 corpus weight
- ambient
ambient
40,219 corpus weight
- amico
amico
40,218 corpus weight
- amoché
amoché
40,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alpage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.paʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alpage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alpage is uncommon French at frequency #59,781 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.paʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
alpage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is alpage, spelled A-L-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Pâturage d’altitude.
- 2Période estivale passée par un troupeau à pâturer en altitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lʼemplacement du chalet doit se raisonner en fonction de la configuration générale de lʼalpage.
Sur les alpages de Miage et du Truc, 54 microtoponymes ont été relevés dont 22 mentionnés sur la carte IGN série bleue au 1/25 000ᵉ Saint-Gervais - Les Bains (3531 est).
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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