éclairement
\e.klɛʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“éclairement” is uncommon French (frequency #71,201 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,201
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d'éclairer ; résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclairement · éclairement · French
éclairement · rank #71,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,201
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échue
Nearest frequency peer: échue (-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 « éclairement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échangeable
échangeable
28,802 corpus weight
- échue
échue
28,801 corpus weight
- éclairement
éclairement
28,800 corpus weight
- épigrammes
épigrammes
28,799 corpus weight
- épisodiquem…
épisodiquement
28,798 corpus weight
- équilibrent
équilibrent
28,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éclairement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclairement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.klɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éclairement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éclairement is uncommon French at frequency #71,201 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.klɛʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for éclairement in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is éclairement, spelled É-C-L-A-I-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d'éclairer ; résultat de cette action.
- 2Clarté ; luminosité.
- 3Densité de flux lumineux reçu par unité de surface, exprimé en lux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éclairement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a pas beaucoup d’éclairement : les grands lustres multipliés qui pendent tout autour du décor carré de la salle, n’éclairent qu’eux-mêmes.
Elle ne se rendait pas compte que cette rencontre n’avait apporté de nouveau qu’un éclairement très vif sur une teinte d’elle qui existait peut-être depuis toujours.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).