égorgement
\e.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“égorgement” is uncommon French (frequency #75,364 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,364
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’égorger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-egorgement · égorgement · French
égorgement · rank #75,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,364
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH économisés
Nearest frequency peer: économisés (-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 « égorgement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zoltan
Zoltan
24,640 corpus weight
- éclatèrent
éclatèrent
24,639 corpus weight
- économisés
économisés
24,638 corpus weight
- égorgement
égorgement
24,637 corpus weight
- électrifié
électrifié
24,636 corpus weight
- électromagn…
électromagnétisme
24,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « égorgement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | égorgement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « égorgement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
égorgement is uncommon French at frequency #75,364 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’égorger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for égorgement, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is égorgement, spelled É-G-O-R-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’égorger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how égorgement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or c’était un amoureux de la Guerre, quelle qu’elle fût. Il avait la concupiscence exclusive de l’égorgement.
L’égorgement public d’une petite fille de neuf ans l’ébranlera profondément à tel point qu’à la fin du roman, il brave les interdits durant des fêtes dionysiaques et orgiaques auxquelles il participe avec ses amis.
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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