calibrage
\ka.li.bʁaʒ\
The verdict
“calibrage” is uncommon French (frequency #57,804 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,804
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de calibrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calibrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.bʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “calibrage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
calibrage is uncommon French at frequency #57,804 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.li.bʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for calibrage in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 calibrage, spelled C-A-L-I-B-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de calibrer.
- 2Mise en forme de la pâte sur un moule en rotation par action d’un calibre.
- 3Détermination de l’appartenance d’une mesure à une classe d’intensité comprise entre deux valeurs limites prédéterminées. → voir étalonnage.
- 4Action d’évaluer le nombre de signes dans le texte et son encombrement dans le futur ouvrage.
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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Using “calibrage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-L-I-B-R-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.