effeuillage
\e.fœ.jaʒ\
The verdict
“effeuillage” is uncommon French (frequency #91,640 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,640
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de détacher une certaine quantité de feuilles d’un arbre pour permettre aux fruits de recevoir plus de lumière et de chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effeuillage · effeuillage · French
effeuillage · rank #91,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,640
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effaceur
Nearest frequency peer: effaceur (-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 « effeuillage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détournes
détournes
8,368 corpus weight
- Eastbourne
Eastbourne
8,366 corpus weight
- effaceur
effaceur
8,362 corpus weight
- effeuillage
effeuillage
8,361 corpus weight
- efforçaient
efforçaient
8,359 corpus weight
- embarquaient
embarquaient
8,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effeuillage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « effeuillage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effeuillage is uncommon French at frequency #91,640 among 3,255 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effeuillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pratique l’effeuillage de la vigne.
Ariel Levy épingle aussi ces dirigeantes de chaînes câblées, des femmes admirées dans leur secteur, qui produisent des émissions comme G-String Divas, dans lesquelles l’effeuillage est assimilé à une façon pour les femmes de « prendre leur vie en main ».
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).