labourage

/\la.bu.ʁaʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“labourage” is an uncommon French word, ranked #88,812 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#88,812
frequency rank, French
9
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Action de labourer la terre.

Key facts for labourage
PropertyValue
Headwordlabourage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la.bu.ʁaʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#88,812
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “labourage” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). labourage lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for labourage is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.bu.ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,812 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for labourage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is labourage, spelled L-A-B-O-U-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de labourer la terre.
  2. 2
    Action de décharger, en parlant de marchandises.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #88,812 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "labourage"?
"labourage" is spelled L-A-B-O-U-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la.bu.ʁaʒ\.
What does "labourage" mean?
As a noun, "labourage" means: Action de labourer la terre.
How do you pronounce "labourage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "labourage" is \la.bu.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "labourage" come from?
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Using “labourage”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is L-A-B-O-U-R-A-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \la.bu.ʁaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.