chalutage
\ʃa.ly.taʒ\
The verdict
“chalutage” is uncommon French (frequency #98,871 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,871
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pêche au chalut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chalutage · chalutage · French
chalutage · rank #98,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,871
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cesseraient
Nearest frequency peer: cesseraient (-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 « chalutage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- centralisant
centralisant
1,134 corpus weight
- certifient
certifient
1,133 corpus weight
- cesseraient
cesseraient
1,131 corpus weight
- chalutage
chalutage
1,130 corpus weight
- chantonner
chantonner
1,128 corpus weight
- charmeurs
charmeurs
1,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chalutage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chalutage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ly.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chalutage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chalutage is uncommon French at frequency #98,871 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ly.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pêche au chalut.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chalutage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chalutage, spelled C-H-A-L-U-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Pêche au chalut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chalutage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant toute la durée du chalutage un pêcheur expérimenté se tient près du chien et apprécie, en tâtant les funes, les trépidations et les secousses subies par l'appareil. Il peut donc indiquer à temps s'il faut diminuer de vitesse ou même stopper.
Nos recherches océanographiques se prolongèrent autour du récif jusqu’au 4 juillet, et nous effectuâmes douze stations comprenant prises d’eau et de températures, sondages, dragages, chalutages.
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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