fumage
\fy.maʒ\
The verdict
“fumage” is uncommon French (frequency #82,973 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,973
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’exposer à la fumée, le plus souvent pour une meilleure conservation des aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumage · fumage · French
fumage · rank #82,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,973
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frôlait
Nearest frequency peer: frôlait (-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 « fumage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fronçant
fronçant
17,031 corpus weight
- frot
frot
17,030 corpus weight
- frôlait
frôlait
17,029 corpus weight
- fumage
fumage
17,028 corpus weight
- funding
funding
17,027 corpus weight
- FZ
FZ
17,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumage is uncommon French at frequency #82,973 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.maʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
fumage has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fumage, spelled F-U-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’exposer à la fumée, le plus souvent pour une meilleure conservation des aliments.
- 2Opération par laquelle on donne une fausse couleur d’or à l’argent filé, en l’exposant à la fumée de certaines compositions.
- 3Action de fumer une terre ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2007, il s'est installé dans les murs de l'une des plus illustres saurisseries de Boulogne-sur-Mer pour fumer ses harengs dans des coresses, ces fours à bois qui ressemblent à de hautes armoires et où le poisson prend cette saveur et cet aspect inimitables que procure le lent fumage à l'ancienne (vingt-quatre à quarante-huit heures).
Le fumage d’un champ.
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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