flocage
\flɔ.kaʒ\
The verdict
“flocage” is uncommon French (frequency #70,653 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,653
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de floquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flocage · flocage · French
flocage · rank #70,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,653
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH florissants
Nearest frequency peer: florissants (+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 « flocage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fictionnel
fictionnel
29,352 corpus weight
- figurante
figurante
29,351 corpus weight
- filial
filial
29,350 corpus weight
- flocage
flocage
29,348 corpus weight
- florissants
florissants
29,347 corpus weight
- fluorescent…
fluorescentes
29,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flocage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flocage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flocage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flocage is uncommon French at frequency #70,653 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɔ.kaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for flocage in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flocage, spelled F-L-O-C-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de floquer.
- 2Matière utilisée pour floquer, couche en résultant.
- 3Façon qu’on donne aux bonnets orientaux, en attachant un flocon de soie au sommet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flocage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le flocage est l'opération qui consiste à projeter sur une surface préalablement enduite de l'adhésif approprié, un très grand nombre de courtes fibres textiles jusqu'à 14 mm appelées flocs, de façon à obtenir un aspect suédé, feutre, velours.
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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