curetage
\kyʁ.taʒ\
The verdict
“curetage” is uncommon French (frequency #92,603 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,603
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opération chirurgicale par laquelle on nettoie certains organes intérieurs, surtout chez les femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curetage · curetage · French
curetage · rank #92,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,603
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cupid
Nearest frequency peer: cupid (-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 « curetage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- culminants
culminants
7,402 corpus weight
- cumbia
cumbia
7,401 corpus weight
- cumulable
cumulable
7,400 corpus weight
- cupid
cupid
7,399 corpus weight
- curetage
curetage
7,398 corpus weight
- curia
curia
7,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curetage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curetage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kyʁ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curetage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curetage is uncommon French at frequency #92,603 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kyʁ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curetage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is curetage, spelled C-U-R-E-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Opération chirurgicale par laquelle on nettoie certains organes intérieurs, surtout chez les femmes.
- 2Opération de réhabilitation urbaine selon laquelle on détruit un immeuble sauf la façade quand elle présente un intérêt historique ou architectural et que l'on reconstruit intégralement l'arrière de l'immeuble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curetage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, le médecin vint, l’examina ; c’était une métrite, et sérieuse ; il fallait lui faire un curetage.
L’avortement pratiqué par une commère avait mal tourné. Le chirurgien de l’hôpital avait fait le curetage sans anesthésier la jeune fille, pour la punir « d’avoir attenté à sa santé ».
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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