liquéfaction
\li.ke.fak.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“liquéfaction” is uncommon French (frequency #56,722 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,722
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Changement d’état d’une substance qui, par l’effet de la température ou de la pression, passe de l’état solide ou gazeux à l’état liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liquefaction · liquéfaction · French
liquéfaction · rank #56,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,722
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Linz
Nearest frequency peer: Linz (-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 « liquéfaction »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libellules
libellules
43,283 corpus weight
- Ligny
Ligny
43,282 corpus weight
- Linz
Linz
43,280 corpus weight
- liquéfaction
liquéfaction
43,279 corpus weight
- loquet
loquet
43,278 corpus weight
- Louxor
Louxor
43,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « liquéfaction » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liquéfaction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ke.fak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #56,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « liquéfaction » en français
Rare enough to double-check
liquéfaction is uncommon French at frequency #56,722 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.ke.fak.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Changement d’état d’une substance qui, par l’effet de la température ou de la pression, passe de l’état solide ou gazeux à l’état liquide.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for liquéfaction, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 liquéfaction, spelled L-I-Q-U-É-F-A-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Changement d’état d’une substance qui, par l’effet de la température ou de la pression, passe de l’état solide ou gazeux à l’état liquide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how liquéfaction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un terminal de regazéification représente un investissement de l'ordre de 500 millions de dollars pour une capacité similaire à un train de liquéfaction (quelques MT).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).