pontage
\pɔ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“pontage” is uncommon French (frequency #61,045 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,045
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction d'un pont généralement provisoire et à usage militaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pontage · pontage · French
pontage · rank #61,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,045
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Poniatowski
Nearest frequency peer: Poniatowski (-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 « pontage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polos
polos
38,959 corpus weight
- polynômes
polynômes
38,958 corpus weight
- Poniatowski
Poniatowski
38,957 corpus weight
- pontage
pontage
38,956 corpus weight
- pontificales
pontificales
38,955 corpus weight
- positiver
positiver
38,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pontage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pontage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pontage is uncommon French at frequency #61,045 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pontage has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pontage, spelled P-O-N-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Construction d'un pont généralement provisoire et à usage militaire.
- 2Jonction chirurgicale de deux segments artériels par interposition d'un greffon ou d'un tube artificiel.
- 3Relier une batterie automobile à une autre qui est déchargée afin de permettre le démarrage du véhicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pontage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les travaux de pontage avancent d'heure en heure.
J'y avais appris le maniement du bâton, du fusil et de la baïonnette, de l'épée et du sabre. Mais aussi, et c'était le plus important, l'exercice du pontage, c'est-à-dire la fabrication de ponts.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).