pacage
\pa.kaʒ\
The verdict
“pacage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de faire paître les bestiaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pacage · pacage · French
pacage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pacage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pacage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.kaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pacage in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pacage, spelled P-A-C-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de faire paître les bestiaux.
- 2Lieu où l’on mène paître les bestiaux.
- 3Pratique du droit de pacage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pacage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notons que certaines landes soumises au pacage (…) présentent de vastes zones nues dont le gazon ras est essentiellement constitué par des Hémicryptophytes et des Chaméphytes à tige plus ou moins décombante ; […].
Cette lande peut par le pacage donner la lande-herbeuse, comme l'appellent Allorge et Gaume.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.