coulage
\ku.laʒ\
The verdict
“coulage” is uncommon French (frequency #73,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,859
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de faire couler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coulage · coulage · French
coulage · rank #73,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,859
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couds
Nearest frequency peer: couds (-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 « coulage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coordonnate…
coordonnateurs
26,145 corpus weight
- Copenhagen
Copenhagen
26,144 corpus weight
- couds
couds
26,143 corpus weight
- coulage
coulage
26,142 corpus weight
- coupelles
coupelles
26,140 corpus weight
- Coville
Coville
26,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coulage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coulage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coulage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coulage is uncommon French at frequency #73,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for coulage in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is coulage, spelled C-O-U-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de faire couler.
- 2Action de s’écouler ou de couler en causant une perte.
- 3Pertes provenant d’incurie et de gaspillage.
- 4Vol de marchandises ou de fournitures par les employés d’une entreprise, d’un magasin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coulage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le coulage d’une lessive.
L’époque n’était pas encore aux machines à laver modernes, mais on était passé en quelques décennies de la lessive à l’ancienne, la bue, qui dura jusqu’aux années 50 selon les régions, faite deux ou trois fois l’an, entièrement à la main avec de la cendre végétale récupérée chez le boulanger & qui prenait au moins trois jours entiers, dont un pour l’opéra…
Synonyms
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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