alunissage
\a.ly.ni.saʒ\
The verdict
“alunissage” is uncommon French (frequency #70,369 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,369
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’alunir, de prendre contact avec le sol lunaire, de se poser sur la Lune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alunissage · alunissage · French
alunissage · rank #70,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,369
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Amalfi
Nearest frequency peer: Amalfi (+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 « alunissage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allèles
allèles
29,635 corpus weight
- allégeances
allégeances
29,634 corpus weight
- alunissage
alunissage
29,632 corpus weight
- Amalfi
Amalfi
29,631 corpus weight
- amusements
amusements
29,630 corpus weight
- anabaptistes
anabaptistes
29,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alunissage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alunissage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.ni.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alunissage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alunissage is uncommon French at frequency #70,369 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ly.ni.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait d’alunir, de prendre contact avec le sol lunaire, de se poser sur la Lune.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alunissage in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alunissage, spelled A-L-U-N-I-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Fait d’alunir, de prendre contact avec le sol lunaire, de se poser sur la Lune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alunissage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le premier alunissage habité eut lieu le 20 juillet 1969.
Il leur faut maintenant acquérir une bonne connaissance de la surface de notre satellite naturel afin de rendre possible l’alunissage.
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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