élaguer
\e.la.ɡe\
The verdict
“élaguer” is uncommon French (frequency #80,800 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,800
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ébrancher jusqu’à une certaine hauteur ou éclaircir en coupant une partie des branches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elaguer · élaguer · French
élaguer · rank #80,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,800
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH électrocuter
Nearest frequency peer: électrocuter (+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 « élaguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ébranlent
ébranlent
19,204 corpus weight
- échangerais
échangerais
19,203 corpus weight
- élaguer
élaguer
19,201 corpus weight
- électrocuter
électrocuter
19,200 corpus weight
- éleveuse
éleveuse
19,199 corpus weight
- éloignons
éloignons
19,198 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élaguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élaguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.la.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élaguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élaguer is uncommon French at frequency #80,800 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.la.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for élaguer in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is élaguer, spelled É-L-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ébrancher jusqu’à une certaine hauteur ou éclaircir en coupant une partie des branches.
- 2Retrancher dans un ouvrage de l’esprit ce qui l’allonge inutilement et nuit à sa force, à son éclat.
- 3Supprimer les éléments inutiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how élaguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut avoir soin de les élaguer convenablement et de détruire le gui parasite qui les envahit fréquemment.
Ainsi, l’on est plus riche, plus on est dépourvu : car l’esprit crée ce qui lui manque : l’arbre touffu que l’on élague monte plus haut. Moins j’ai et plus je suis…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).