maraîchage
\ma.ʁe.ʃaʒ\
The verdict
“maraîchage” is uncommon French (frequency #59,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,426
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Culture jardinière de légumes, de primeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maraichage · maraîchage · French
maraîchage · rank #59,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,426
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manichéenne
Nearest frequency peer: manichéenne (-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 « maraîchage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mande
mande
40,578 corpus weight
- manichéen
manichéen
40,577 corpus weight
- manichéenne
manichéenne
40,576 corpus weight
- maraîchage
maraîchage
40,575 corpus weight
- marceline
marceline
40,574 corpus weight
- marcs
marcs
40,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maraîchage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maraîchage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁe.ʃaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maraîchage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maraîchage is uncommon French at frequency #59,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁe.ʃaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Culture jardinière de légumes, de primeurs.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for maraîchage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maraîchage, spelled M-A-R-A-Î-C-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Culture jardinière de légumes, de primeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maraîchage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maraîchage est souvent pratiqué près des grandes villes.
L’âge du chef exploitant, qui est positivement et fortement corrélé avec le nombre d’années d’expérience dans le maraîchage, semble avoir une influence sur l’utilisation des pesticides chimiques.
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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