martelage
\maʁ.tə.laʒ\
The verdict
“martelage” is uncommon French (frequency #97,143 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,143
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marquage des arbres avant une coupe afin de distinguer ceux à abattre et ceux à épargner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martelage · martelage · French
martelage · rank #97,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,143
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marinus
Nearest frequency peer: marinus (-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 « martelage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mariachi
mariachi
2,862 corpus weight
- Marienbad
Marienbad
2,860 corpus weight
- marinus
marinus
2,859 corpus weight
- martelage
martelage
2,858 corpus weight
- Marylise
Marylise
2,857 corpus weight
- matriarcale
matriarcale
2,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « martelage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martelage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.tə.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « martelage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
martelage is uncommon French at frequency #97,143 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.tə.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for martelage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is martelage, spelled M-A-R-T-E-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Marquage des arbres avant une coupe afin de distinguer ceux à abattre et ceux à épargner.
- 2Travail de forge qui consiste à frapper du métal au marteau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martelage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le martelage pour le service de la marine aura lieu dans les bois des particuliers; taillis, futaies, avenues, lisières, parcs, et sur les arbres épars. La coupe des arbres marqués sera soumise aux règles observées pour les bois nationaux.
Le martelage consiste à désigner, à la peinture, à la griffe ou au marteau, les arbres (ou les lignes) à exploiter. ll n'est pas indispensable pour la première intervention, à condition que le bûcheron ait été formé et soit habitué à ce genre de travail.
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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