pédalage
\pe.da.laʒ\
The verdict
“pédalage” is uncommon French (frequency #90,075 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,075
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pédaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pedalage · pédalage · French
pédalage · rank #90,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,075
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pédopsychiatr…
Nearest frequency peer: pédopsychiatrie (+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 « pédalage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- précolombie…
précolombienne
9,930 corpus weight
- préférèrent
préférèrent
9,929 corpus weight
- pusher
pusher
9,928 corpus weight
- pédalage
pédalage
9,926 corpus weight
- pédopsychia…
pédopsychiatrie
9,925 corpus weight
- pénalisées
pénalisées
9,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pédalage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pédalage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.da.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pédalage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pédalage is uncommon French at frequency #90,075 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.da.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de pédaler.".
pédalage has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 pédalage, spelled P-É-D-A-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de pédaler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pédalage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rôle secondaire du triceps sural durant le pédalage.
La fréquence de pédalage se mesure en tours par minute (tours/min).
Synonyms
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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