colmatage
\kɔl.ma.taʒ\
The verdict
“colmatage” is uncommon French (frequency #68,928 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,928
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de colmater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colmatage · colmatage · French
colmatage · rank #68,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,928
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cocoon
Nearest frequency peer: cocoon (-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 « colmatage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clot
clot
31,076 corpus weight
- cocoon
cocoon
31,074 corpus weight
- colmatage
colmatage
31,073 corpus weight
- coléoptère
coléoptère
31,072 corpus weight
- commencerez
commencerez
31,071 corpus weight
- compliance
compliance
31,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colmatage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colmatage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.ma.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colmatage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colmatage is uncommon French at frequency #68,928 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔl.ma.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for colmatage, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is colmatage, spelled C-O-L-M-A-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de colmater.
- 2Fait de s’obstruer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colmatage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; les noues anciennes vont s'asséchant par colmatage et évoluent vers la Saulaie ou l'Aulnaie.
Le colmatage peut être défini comme la conséquence des phénomènes résultant du passage de la matière à travers la membrane.
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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