bridage
\bʁi.daʒ\
The verdict
“bridage” is uncommon French (frequency #79,114 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,114
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de brider, de limiter volontairement la puissance d’un moteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bridage · bridage · French
bridage · rank #79,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,114
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bringue
Nearest frequency peer: bringue (+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 « bridage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bouhanni
Bouhanni
20,892 corpus weight
- bouquetin
bouquetin
20,891 corpus weight
- bridage
bridage
20,887 corpus weight
- bringue
bringue
20,886 corpus weight
- broue
broue
20,884 corpus weight
- broussard
broussard
20,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bridage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bridage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bridage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bridage is uncommon French at frequency #79,114 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʁi.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bridage in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bridage, spelled B-R-I-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de brider, de limiter volontairement la puissance d’un moteur.
- 2Cordage utilisé autrefois par les vidangeurs de fosses.
- 3Assemblage de plusieurs pièces à l’aide de brides.
- 4Moyen de fixage du chargement réalisé par des outils fixes et rigides. Il consiste en l’utilisation de moyens tels que verrous, boulons, cales fixes sur le plancher, pour immobiliser la charge transportée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bridage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, on constate une attitude plutôt favorable pour adapter les véhicules à de nouvelles normes (pose de pots catalytiques, bridage des moteurs).
Bridage de la charge au véhicule.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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