greffage
\ɡʁɛ.faʒ\
The verdict
“greffage” is uncommon French (frequency #75,736 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,736
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de greffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-greffage · greffage · French
greffage · rank #75,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH governance
Nearest frequency peer: governance (-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 « greffage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goon
goon
24,268 corpus weight
- gov
gov
24,267 corpus weight
- governance
governance
24,266 corpus weight
- greffage
greffage
24,265 corpus weight
- Guillard
Guillard
24,264 corpus weight
- Guin
Guin
24,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « greffage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | greffage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.faʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « greffage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
greffage is uncommon French at frequency #75,736 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɛ.faʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de greffer.".
greffage has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is greffage, spelled G-R-E-F-F-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de greffer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greffage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le greffage [de l'olivier] dans le département d'Alger, avec les variétés du midi de la France, semble avoir donné de moins bons résultats.
Le jardinier du château ayant consenti à me donner quelques leçons de greffage, tous les arbres sauvageons des haies étaient devenus, par mes soins, producteurs de bons fruits.
Synonyms
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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