défrichage
\de.fʁi.ʃaʒ\
The verdict
“défrichage” is uncommon French (frequency #91,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,625
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de défricher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defrichage · défrichage · French
défrichage · rank #91,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,625
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dédaigner
Nearest frequency peer: dédaigner (-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 « défrichage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décompensat…
décompensation
8,379 corpus weight
- dédaigner
dédaigner
8,377 corpus weight
- défrichage
défrichage
8,376 corpus weight
- dégressive
dégressive
8,375 corpus weight
- démarquée
démarquée
8,374 corpus weight
- démences
démences
8,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défrichage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défrichage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fʁi.ʃaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défrichage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défrichage is uncommon French at frequency #91,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.fʁi.ʃaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de défricher.".
défrichage has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is défrichage, spelled D-É-F-R-I-C-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de défricher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how défrichage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, si une baisse des revenus du pétrole et une véritable crise économique survenaient simultanément et réduisaient les coûts du travail au Gabon, l’amélioration de l’accès aux marchés par des routes asphaltées à l’épreuve des intempéries entraînerait probablement le défrichage des forêts au profit de l’agriculture commerciale.
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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