effeuillage
\e.fœ.jaʒ\
The verdict
“effeuillage” is uncommon French (frequency #91,640 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,640
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de détacher une certaine quantité de feuilles d’un arbre pour permettre aux fruits de recevoir plus de lumière et de chaleur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effeuillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fœ.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “effeuillage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
effeuillage is uncommon French at frequency #91,640 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.fœ.jaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for effeuillage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is effeuillage, spelled E-F-F-E-U-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de détacher une certaine quantité de feuilles d’un arbre pour permettre aux fruits de recevoir plus de lumière et de chaleur.
- 2État des arbres qui ont été effeuillés ou qui s’effeuillent.
- 3Spectacle, habituellement une danse, dans laquelle l’exécutant se déshabille doucement et sensuellement.
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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Using “effeuillage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-F-F-E-U-I-L-L-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.