restylage
\rə.sti.laʒ\
The verdict
“restylage” is uncommon French (frequency #81,508 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,508
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de modifier légèrement la carrosserie ou les équipements extérieurs d’un véhicule, de façon à le rajeunir, sans apporter de transformations profondes à sa ligne générale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restylage · restylage · French
restylage · rank #81,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,508
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressert
Nearest frequency peer: ressert (-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 « restylage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- resplendit
resplendit
18,496 corpus weight
- responsabil…
responsabilise
18,495 corpus weight
- ressert
ressert
18,494 corpus weight
- restylage
restylage
18,493 corpus weight
- retracée
retracée
18,492 corpus weight
- retranscrite
retranscrite
18,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « restylage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restylage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rə.sti.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « restylage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
restylage is uncommon French at frequency #81,508 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \rə.sti.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de modifier légèrement la carrosserie ou les équipements extérieurs d’un véhicule, de façon à le rajeunir, sans apporter de transformations profondes à sa ligne générale.".
restylage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is restylage, spelled R-E-S-T-Y-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de modifier légèrement la carrosserie ou les équipements extérieurs d’un véhicule, de façon à le rajeunir, sans apporter de transformations profondes à sa ligne générale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how restylage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce restylage pourrait aussi être l'occasion pour Citroën de faire quelques économies sur les coûts de production de sa berline compacte, la marque n'ayant désormais aucune gêne à empiéter sur les plates-bandes de Dacia.
Le restylage du Honda HR-V se concentre essentiellement sur des ajustements esthétiques qui apportent une touche de fraîcheur sans bouleverser le design d’origine.
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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