feuilletage
\fœj.taʒ\
The verdict
“feuilletage” is uncommon French (frequency #87,638 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,638
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de feuilleter la pâtisserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feuilletage · feuilletage · French
feuilletage · rank #87,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,638
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fere
Nearest frequency peer: fere (-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 « feuilletage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Faïd
Faïd
12,366 corpus weight
- fere
fere
12,364 corpus weight
- feuilletage
feuilletage
12,363 corpus weight
- fichtrement
fichtrement
12,362 corpus weight
- fignoler
fignoler
12,361 corpus weight
- fiou
fiou
12,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feuilletage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feuilletage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fœj.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feuilletage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feuilletage is uncommon French at frequency #87,638 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fœj.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manière de feuilleter la pâtisserie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for feuilletage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is feuilletage, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Manière de feuilleter la pâtisserie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feuilletage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le feuilletage lève trop pendant la cuisson, n’hésitez pas à appuyer un peu sur la plaque.
Retirez bien l’excédent de farine qui pourrait se former lorsque vous tourez la pâte. S'il y a trop de farine, les couches de détrempe ne se colleront pas entre elles et vous aurez du mal à réaliser le feuilletage.
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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