calibrage
\ka.li.bʁaʒ\
The verdict
“calibrage” is uncommon French (frequency #57,804 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,804
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de calibrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calibrage · calibrage · French
calibrage · rank #57,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,804
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cami
Nearest frequency peer: cami (+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 « calibrage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabillaud
cabillaud
42,200 corpus weight
- cairns
cairns
42,199 corpus weight
- calibrage
calibrage
42,197 corpus weight
- cami
cami
42,196 corpus weight
- camélias
camélias
42,195 corpus weight
- canonisé
canonisé
42,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calibrage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « calibrage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calibrage is uncommon French at frequency #57,804 among 8,609 “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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