feuillage

\fœ.jaʒ\

/\fœ.jaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“feuillage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,485
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’ensemble des feuilles d’un ou de plusieurs arbres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-feuillage · feuillage · French

feuillage · rank #18,485 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,485
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH festin

Nearest frequency peer: festin (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « feuillage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « feuillage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

feuillage vs feuille
78% similar
feuillage vs feuilleté
67% similar
feuillage vs feuillages
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for feuillage
PropertyValue
Headwordfeuillage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fœ.jaʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#18,485
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « feuillage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).feuillagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « festin » (#18,484), « flamande » (#18,486), « Fall » (#18,483). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « feuillage » est au #18,485. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around feuillage (IPA \fœ.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,485 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for feuillage, with forms such as "efuillage", "feiullage", and "feuilage". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "feuille", "feuilleté", "feuillages", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 feuillage, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    L’ensemble des feuilles d’un ou de plusieurs arbres.
  2. 2
    Branches d’arbres couvertes de feuilles, ou amas de feuilles vertes détachées de l’arbre.
  3. 3
    Représentation plus ou moins fidèles de feuillage, soit en sculpture, soit en ouvrage de tapisserie, etc.
  4. 4
    Travail du feuilleur dans la fabrication du charbon de bois.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how feuillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’ombre mouvante des mousselines était aussi vaporeuse que leur feuillage.
  2. On traverse fréquemment des régions incendiées où les fûts carbonisés portent encore, comme de grosses houppes de tabac, leur ancien feuillage.

This word in other languages

foliage(English)follaje(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • efuillage
  • feiullage
  • feuilage
  • feuilalge
  • feuillaeg
  • feuillagge
  • feuillgae
  • feulilage
  • ffeuillage
  • fueillage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feuillage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

efuillage2feiullage2feuilage1feuilalge2feuillaeg2feuillagge1feuillgae2feulilage2
Edit distance from "feuillage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feuillage"?
"feuillage" is spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fœ.jaʒ\.
What does "feuillage" mean?
As a noun, "feuillage" means: L’ensemble des feuilles d’un ou de plusieurs arbres.
What words are commonly confused with "feuillage"?
"feuillage" is commonly confused with "feuille", "feuilleté", "feuillages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "feuillage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feuillage" is \fœ.jaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feuillage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feuillage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

entremise#18,477empêchait#18,473emportent#18,472graphiste#18,498

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

extreme10 variantsentende10 variantsDeauville10 variantsdealers10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list