lissage
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lissage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de lisser, résultat de cette action.
- 2Dans la préparation de certains fromages, homogénéisation du caillé pour obtenir une pâte fraiche lissée.
- 3Ajustement du remboursement d'un crédit à la capacité financière de l'emprunteur.
- 4Technique chirurgicale destinée à supprimer les rides du visage. → voir lifting
- 5Opération en filature qui a pour but d’enlever l’ensimage, de lustrer la laine, etc.
- 6Action de lisser un ouvrage ; résultat de cette action.
- 7Élimination, conformément à une règle déterminée, de détails d’une ligne tracée sur une carte.
- 8En 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #36,935 in French
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