flottage
\flɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“flottage” is uncommon French (frequency #82,958 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,958
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transport du bois par eau, lorsqu’on le fait flotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottage · flottage · French
flottage · rank #82,958 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,958
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flesh
Nearest frequency peer: flesh (-2 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 « flottage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- financez
financez
17,048 corpus weight
- Fismes
Fismes
17,047 corpus weight
- fixateur
fixateur
17,046 corpus weight
- flesh
flesh
17,045 corpus weight
- flottage
flottage
17,043 corpus weight
- Fontan
Fontan
17,039 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flottage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flottage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flottage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flottage is uncommon French at frequency #82,958 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flottage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flottage, spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Transport du bois par eau, lorsqu’on le fait flotter.
- 2Procédé de traitement du bois qui consiste en son immersion dans l'eau pour éliminer la sève. Ensuite on obtient des bois plus résistant au pourrissement.
- 3Partie du bois qui masque un assemblage par tenon et mortaise.
- 4Séparation de corps solides par leur différence de densité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flottage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette rivière est commode pour le flottage.
Le flottage du bois sur la Sarre présente une histoire, des techniques et réglementations identiques à celles des Oualous.
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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