fumigation
\fy.mi.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“fumigation” is uncommon French (frequency #82,054 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,054
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’appliquer un médicament, sous forme de fumée, de vapeur ou de gaz, à quelque partie du corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumigation · fumigation · French
fumigation · rank #82,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,054
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fumants
Nearest frequency peer: fumants (-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 « fumigation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frustrées
frustrées
17,951 corpus weight
- fumantes
fumantes
17,949 corpus weight
- fumants
fumants
17,948 corpus weight
- fumigation
fumigation
17,947 corpus weight
- fustigent
fustigent
17,946 corpus weight
- gadoue
gadoue
17,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumigation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumigation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.mi.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumigation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumigation is uncommon French at frequency #82,054 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.mi.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fumigation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fumigation, spelled F-U-M-I-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’appliquer un médicament, sous forme de fumée, de vapeur ou de gaz, à quelque partie du corps.
- 2Action d’exposer à la fumée, à la vapeur certaines substances pour désinfecter certains lieux ou certains objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumigation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fumigations sulfureuses. - Fumigations aromatiques. - Fumigations aqueuses.
À Sixaola, les passages des avions ont lieu aux heures les moins chaudes, pour éviter la dispersion de la fumigation.
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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