flicage
\fli.kaʒ\
The verdict
“flicage” is uncommon French (frequency #77,526 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,526
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surveillance de manière policière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flicage · flicage · French
flicage · rank #77,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,526
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flanque
Nearest frequency peer: flanque (-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 « flicage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Feurs
Feurs
22,480 corpus weight
- financeur
financeur
22,478 corpus weight
- flanque
flanque
22,476 corpus weight
- flicage
flicage
22,475 corpus weight
- fournirent
fournirent
22,473 corpus weight
- fourvoyé
fourvoyé
22,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flicage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flicage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fli.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flicage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flicage is uncommon French at frequency #77,526 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fli.kaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Surveillance de manière policière.".
flicage has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flicage, spelled F-L-I-C-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Surveillance de manière policière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flicage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
David coupe la parole à Paul : Écoute Paul, cette enquête je ne la sens pas mais alors pas du tout. Si tu veux mon avis, c'est du flicage : on va savoir qui pense quoi et la prochaine étape, ce sera de virer ceux qui ne pensent pas « dans la plaque. »
Certains répondants n'hésitent pas à parler même de « flicage » pour décrire le contrôle renforcé de leurs activités par des technologies qui associent une surveillance directe, par le biais notamment du téléphone mobile, et une surveillance indirecte par la traçabilité.
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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