élaguer

/\e.la.ɡe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#80,800

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

élaguer is aFrenchverb. It means: Ébrancher jusqu’à une certaine hauteur ou éclaircir en coupant une partie des branches. Pronounced \e.la.ɡe\.

Key facts for élaguer
PropertyValue
Headwordélaguer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.la.ɡe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#80,800
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of élaguer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for élaguer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.la.ɡe\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,800 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for élaguer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is élaguer, spelled É-L-A-G-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ébrancher jusqu’à une certaine hauteur ou éclaircir en coupant une partie des branches.
  2. 2
    Retrancher dans un ouvrage de l’esprit ce qui l’allonge inutilement et nuit à sa force, à son éclat.
  3. 3
    Supprimer les éléments inutiles.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #80,800 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "élaguer"?
"élaguer" is spelled É-L-A-G-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \e.la.ɡe\.
What does "élaguer" mean?
As a verb, "élaguer" means: Ébrancher jusqu’à une certaine hauteur ou éclaircir en coupant une partie des branches.
How do you pronounce "élaguer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "élaguer" is \e.la.ɡe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "élaguer" come from?
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Data Source: 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.