élagage
\e.la.ɡaʒ\
The verdict
“élagage” is uncommon French (frequency #53,081 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,081
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’élaguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elagage · élagage · French
élagage · rank #53,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclipsée
Nearest frequency peer: éclipsée (-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 « élagage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ébahi
ébahi
46,923 corpus weight
- ébahis
ébahis
46,922 corpus weight
- éclipsée
éclipsée
46,921 corpus weight
- élagage
élagage
46,920 corpus weight
- émanait
émanait
46,919 corpus weight
- émigrent
émigrent
46,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élagage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élagage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.la.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élagage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élagage is uncommon French at frequency #53,081 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.la.ɡaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for élagage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is élagage, spelled É-L-A-G-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’élaguer.
- 2Branches qu’on a retranchées en élaguant.
- 3Par analogie, opération consistant à enlever des branches à un arbre logique, à les écarter d'une énumération.
- 4Processus de réduction du nombre des embranchements d’un réseau neuronal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how élagage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus l'élagage est tardif, plus on produit un cœur branchu de diamètre important.
Il y avait « beaucoup de travaux d’élagage, de débroussaillage », qui du point de vue du mis en examen et de son épouse, « troublaient leur tranquillité », a indiqué le procureur.
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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