lissage

/\li.saʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,935

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

lissage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de lisser, résultat de cette action. Pronounced \li.saʒ\. Often confused with lisse and Lesage.

Key facts for lissage
PropertyValue
Headwordlissage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\li.saʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,935
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of lissage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lissage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.saʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,935 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lissage, with forms such as "ilssage", "lisage", and "lisasge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lisse", "Lesage", "lignage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 lissage, spelled L-I-S-S-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 lisser, résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Dans la préparation de certains fromages, homogénéisation du caillé pour obtenir une pâte fraiche lissée.
  3. 3
    Ajustement du remboursement d'un crédit à la capacité financière de l'emprunteur.
  4. 4
    Technique chirurgicale destinée à supprimer les rides du visage. → voir lifting
  5. 5
    Opération en filature qui a pour but d’enlever l’ensimage, de lustrer la laine, etc.
  6. 6
    Action de lisser un ouvrage ; résultat de cette action.
  7. 7
    Élimination, conformément à une règle déterminée, de détails d’une ligne tracée sur une carte.
  8. 8
    En cartographie automatique, remplacement d’une fonction par une autre fonction constituée de valeurs voisines, mais ne comportant pas d’irrégularités telles que discontinuités, points anguleux, fortes courbures, etc.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilssage,lisage,lisasge,lissaeg,lissagge,lissgae,llissage,lsisage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lissage

Misspelling Variants of "lissage"

ilssage7lisage6lisasge7lissaeg7lissagge8lissgae7llissage8lsisage7
Misspelling Variants of "lissage"

Frequency rank: #36,935 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lissage"?
"lissage" is spelled L-I-S-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \li.saʒ\.
What does "lissage" mean?
As a noun, "lissage" means: Action de lisser, résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "lissage"?
"lissage" is commonly confused with "lisse", "Lesage", "lignage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lissage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lissage" is \li.saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lissage" come from?
"lissage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.