rinçage
\ʁɛ̃.saʒ\
The verdict
“rinçage” is uncommon French (frequency #54,853 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,853
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de rincer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rincage · rinçage · French
rinçage · rank #54,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,853
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ricaner
Nearest frequency peer: ricaner (-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 « rinçage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reviendraie…
reviendraient
45,152 corpus weight
- revoyez
revoyez
45,151 corpus weight
- ricaner
ricaner
45,149 corpus weight
- rinçage
rinçage
45,148 corpus weight
- roar
roar
45,146 corpus weight
- rocailleux
rocailleux
45,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rinçage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rinçage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rinçage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rinçage is uncommon French at frequency #54,853 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ̃.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rinçage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 rinçage, spelled R-I-N-Ç-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de rincer.
- 2Procédé d’élimination ou de dilution d’une substance indésirable dans l’organisme, qui consiste généralement en l’administration d’un fluide.
- 3Perte d’argent, notamment au jeu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rinçage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; c'est une sorte d’évier en étain destiné au rinçage des cristaux et de l’argenterie qu'on ne descend pas à la cuisine.
De petites sommes perdues au jeu avaient été à plusieurs reprises couvertes par Michel-Charles. En août 1874, c’est le grand rinçage.
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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