nourrissage
\nu.ʁi.saʒ\
The verdict
“nourrissage” is uncommon French (frequency #84,111 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,111
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soin et manière de nourrir et d’élever les bestiaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nourrissage · nourrissage · French
nourrissage · rank #84,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,111
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nostri
Nearest frequency peer: nostri (-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 « nourrissage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- noblement
noblement
15,894 corpus weight
- nog
nog
15,893 corpus weight
- Nogaro
Nogaro
15,892 corpus weight
- nostri
nostri
15,891 corpus weight
- nourrissage
nourrissage
15,890 corpus weight
- nutriment
nutriment
15,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nourrissage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nourrissage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ʁi.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nourrissage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nourrissage is uncommon French at frequency #84,111 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.ʁi.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soin et manière de nourrir et d’élever les bestiaux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nourrissage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nourrissage, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Soin et manière de nourrir et d’élever les bestiaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nourrissage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ver à soie a un remarquable pouvoir de croissance: […] Son éducation est donc en grande partie une affaire de nourrissage intensif, d'« embouche» pour reprendre l'expression utilisée par J.P. Digard.
Chez le rouge-queue noir par exemple, la femelle assure généralement seule le nourrissage des poussins après leur envol, mais dans les 20 % des nids, le mâle prend en charge le nourrissage de la moitié de la nichée, interdisant la définition d'un rôle unique du mâle pour son espèce.
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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