lâchage
\lɑ.ʃaʒ\
The verdict
“lâchage” is uncommon French (frequency #96,093 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,093
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de lâcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lachage · lâchage · French
lâchage · rank #96,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Légitimus
Nearest frequency peer: Légitimus (+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 « lâchage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- louvoyer
louvoyer
3,911 corpus weight
- lâchage
lâchage
3,908 corpus weight
- Légitimus
Légitimus
3,907 corpus weight
- mainland
mainland
3,905 corpus weight
- Mainz
Mainz
3,904 corpus weight
- Malenfant
Malenfant
3,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lâchage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lâchage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ.ʃaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lâchage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lâchage is uncommon French at frequency #96,093 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɑ.ʃaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for lâchage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lâchage, spelled L-Â-C-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de lâcher.
- 2Abandon.
- 3Action de se lâcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lâchage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lâchage d’un câble a fragilisé toute la structure.
Le lâchage des anciens collaborateurs, remerciés sans plus, est une honte !
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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