léchage

\le.ʃaʒ\

/\le.ʃaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“léchage” is uncommon French (frequency #73,317 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,317
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de lécher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lechage · léchage · French

léchage · rank #73,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,317
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH lubriques

Nearest frequency peer: lubriques (-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 « léchage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « léchage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for léchage
PropertyValue
Headwordléchage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\le.ʃaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#73,317
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « léchage » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.léchagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « lubriques » (#73,316), « léninistes » (#73,318), « LRA » (#73,315). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « léchage » est au #73,317. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

léchage is uncommon French at frequency #73,317 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.ʃaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de lécher.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for léchage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is léchage, spelled L-É-C-H-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de lécher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how léchage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Du léchage de botte.
  2. Le léchage est une activité motrice caractéristique du comportement maternel, mais aussi du comportement sexuel.

Synonyms

léchade

This word in other languages

licking(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "léchage"?
"léchage" is spelled L-É-C-H-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \le.ʃaʒ\.
What does "léchage" mean?
As a noun, "léchage" means: Action de lécher.
How do you pronounce "léchage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "léchage" is \le.ʃaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "léchage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "léchage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mafioso#73,326mandate#73,334maoïsme#73,336Leonora#73,295

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list