gazage
\ɡa.zaʒ\
The verdict
“gazage” is uncommon French (frequency #86,740 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,740
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de griller avec une flamme au gaz, en particulier les fils
Corpus desk
Index FR-gazage · gazage · French
gazage · rank #86,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,740
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gener
Nearest frequency peer: gener (+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 « gazage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gaussienne
gaussienne
13,263 corpus weight
- gazage
gazage
13,261 corpus weight
- gener
gener
13,260 corpus weight
- genere
genere
13,259 corpus weight
- gercées
gercées
13,258 corpus weight
- gesticulati…
gesticulation
13,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gazage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gazage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gazage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gazage is uncommon French at frequency #86,740 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.zaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gazage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gazage, spelled G-A-Z-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de griller avec une flamme au gaz, en particulier les fils
- 2Action de passer des tissus à la flamme afin de les égaliser
- 3Action d'asphyxier avec des gaz toxiques, voire mortels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gazage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bobinage, le gazage, le laminage, pour les fils gazés, constituent des frais en sus.
Pour le gazage, on emploie les bobinoirs à broches horizontales avec tringles de tension, réglant la hauteur du passage du fil dans la flamme.
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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