corsage
\kɔʁ.saʒ\
The verdict
“corsage” is uncommon French (frequency #50,748 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,748
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buste, poitrail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corsage · corsage · French
corsage · rank #50,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,748
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corsa
Nearest frequency peer: corsa (-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 « corsage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corneilles
corneilles
49,257 corpus weight
- corniches
corniches
49,256 corpus weight
- corrobore
corrobore
49,255 corpus weight
- corsa
corsa
49,254 corpus weight
- corsage
corsage
49,253 corpus weight
- courtisanes
courtisanes
49,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « corsage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corsage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « corsage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
corsage is uncommon French at frequency #50,748 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for corsage, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is corsage, spelled C-O-R-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Buste, poitrail.
- 2Partie de certains vêtements de femme qui embrasse le buste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corsage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouve aux Indes des éléphants de trois sortes (dit le P. Vincent Marie) les blancs qui sont les plus grands, les plus doux, les plus paisibles, sont estimés et adorés par plusieurs nations comme des dieux ; les roux tels que ceux de Ceylan, quoiqu'ils soient les plus petits de corsage, sont les plus valeureux, les plus forts, les plus nerveux, les mei…
Seulement, quelque modeste que fût son corsage, il ne cachait pas entièrement l’élégance de sa taille.
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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