pétrissage
\pet.ʁi.saʒ\
The verdict
“pétrissage” is uncommon French (frequency #87,062 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,062
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pétrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petrissage · pétrissage · French
pétrissage · rank #87,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,062
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pétioles
Nearest frequency peer: pétioles (-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 « pétrissage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- périnatale
périnatale
12,942 corpus weight
- périurbains
périurbains
12,941 corpus weight
- pétioles
pétioles
12,940 corpus weight
- pétrissage
pétrissage
12,939 corpus weight
- Pétrograd
Pétrograd
12,938 corpus weight
- Qatarien
Qatarien
12,937 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétrissage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétrissage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pet.ʁi.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétrissage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétrissage is uncommon French at frequency #87,062 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pet.ʁi.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de pétrir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pétrissage in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pétrissage, spelled P-É-T-R-I-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de pétrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pétrissage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là où ça se complique, c’est pour la fourrette, les vilaines sont jamais disponibles aux bonnes heures, pourtant y’a pas d’autre boulot où le pétrissage de miches accapare autant.
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); 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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