estampage
\ɛ.stɑ̃.paʒ\
The verdict
“estampage” is uncommon French (frequency #92,709 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,709
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’estamper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estampage · estampage · French
estampage · rank #92,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,709
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essuyée
Nearest frequency peer: essuyée (-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 « estampage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- esculape
esculape
7,296 corpus weight
- essentialis…
essentialiste
7,294 corpus weight
- essuyée
essuyée
7,293 corpus weight
- estampage
estampage
7,292 corpus weight
- estive
estive
7,291 corpus weight
- Etchemin
Etchemin
7,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « estampage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estampage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.stɑ̃.paʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estampage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estampage is uncommon French at frequency #92,709 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.stɑ̃.paʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for estampage, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 estampage, spelled E-S-T-A-M-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’estamper.
- 2Procédé par lequel on prend l’empreinte d’un monument épigraphique, et cette empreinte elle-même.
- 3Escroquerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how estampage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des opérations réalisées en usant de la technique de l’estampage, qui consiste à disposer une feuille de papier humide sur une pierre porteuse d’inscriptions, sur laquelle est appliqué un tampon imbibé d’encre en prenant soin d’en épouser creux et reliefs.
L’estampage d’une monnaie, d’un fer à cheval.
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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