décoffrage
\de.kɔ.fʁaʒ\
The verdict
“décoffrage” is uncommon French (frequency #92,657 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,657
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de décoffrer le béton, du plâtre, etc., du moule dans lequel on l'a coulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decoffrage · décoffrage · French
décoffrage · rank #92,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,657
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décollée
Nearest frequency peer: décollée (+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 « décoffrage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décalant
décalant
7,347 corpus weight
- déchirantes
déchirantes
7,346 corpus weight
- décoffrage
décoffrage
7,344 corpus weight
- décollée
décollée
7,343 corpus weight
- décompresse
décompresse
7,342 corpus weight
- déconseille…
déconseillent
7,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décoffrage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décoffrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kɔ.fʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décoffrage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décoffrage is uncommon French at frequency #92,657 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kɔ.fʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de décoffrer le béton, du plâtre, etc., du moule dans lequel on l'a coulé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for décoffrage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 décoffrage, spelled D-É-C-O-F-F-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de décoffrer le béton, du plâtre, etc., du moule dans lequel on l'a coulé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décoffrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une huile de décoffrage.
Un coffrage bois se dessèche pendant le durcissement du béton, se déforme et provoque des arrachements au moment du décoffrage.
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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