reforestation
\ʁə.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“reforestation” is uncommon French (frequency #85,206 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,206
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Restauration d'une forêt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reforestation · reforestation · French
reforestation · rank #85,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,206
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redéployer
Nearest frequency peer: redéployer (-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 « reforestation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- redistribuée
redistribuée
14,798 corpus weight
- redistribué…
redistribuées
14,797 corpus weight
- redéployer
redéployer
14,796 corpus weight
- reforestati…
reforestation
14,795 corpus weight
- refuserai
refuserai
14,794 corpus weight
- refuserez
refuserez
14,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reforestation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reforestation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #85,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reforestation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reforestation is uncommon French at frequency #85,206 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Restauration d'une forêt.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reforestation, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is reforestation, spelled R-E-F-O-R-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Restauration d'une forêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reforestation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Google déclare également compenser tout le carbone qu’il émet en achetant ces fameux « permis d'émettre », qui financent les technologies propres et la reforestation dans les pays émergents.
Reforestation comme afforestation permettent de capturer du carbone atmosphérique en faisant grandir des arbres qui vont l’absorber. En revanche, si la reforestation est bénéfique pour la biodiversité, l’afforestation, elle, provoque un phénomène de conversion de l’habitat chez de nombreuses espèces.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).