footage
\fu.taʒ\
The verdict
“footage” is uncommon French (frequency #95,919 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,919
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de mesurer une distance en pieds, ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-footage · footage · French
footage · rank #95,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,919
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fontanel
Nearest frequency peer: Fontanel (-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 « footage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fléchée
fléchée
4,085 corpus weight
- Fontanel
Fontanel
4,083 corpus weight
- footage
footage
4,082 corpus weight
- formalisées
formalisées
4,081 corpus weight
- formosa
formosa
4,080 corpus weight
- fourbi
fourbi
4,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « footage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | footage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « footage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
footage is uncommon French at frequency #95,919 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
footage has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 footage, spelled F-O-O-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de mesurer une distance en pieds, ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Images vidéo brutes non éditées, non montées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how footage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la suite de ce chapitre on utilisera indifféremment les termes footage ou métrage et prix du pied P_F ou prix du mètre Pₘ.
Toutefois, Peter Jackson a présenté un footage au Comic-Con en 2D et 24is.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).