freinages
\fʁɛ.naʒ\
The verdict
“freinages” is uncommon French (frequency #83,895 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,895
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de freinage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freinages · freinages · French
freinages · rank #83,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,895
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH freed
Nearest frequency peer: freed (-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 « freinages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fourniret
Fourniret
16,109 corpus weight
- freed
freed
16,107 corpus weight
- freinages
freinages
16,106 corpus weight
- Freitas
Freitas
16,105 corpus weight
- friables
friables
16,104 corpus weight
- fricassée
fricassée
16,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « freinages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freinages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛ.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « freinages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
freinages is uncommon French at frequency #83,895 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɛ.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de freinage.".
freinages has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 freinages, spelled F-R-E-I-N-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de freinage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how freinages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque descente à vélo est une sorte de slalom géant, avec ses passages fins, ses freinages et son indispensable sens de l’anticipation.
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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