saupoudrage
\so.pu.dʁaʒ\
The verdict
“saupoudrage” is uncommon French (frequency #94,253 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,253
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de répandre sur quelque chose une petite quantité d’une substance sous forme de poudre, de paillettes ou de petits grains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saupoudrage · saupoudrage · French
saupoudrage · rank #94,253 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,253
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saupoudrée
Nearest frequency peer: saupoudrée (+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 « saupoudrage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- satisferont
satisferont
5,751 corpus weight
- saturnisme
saturnisme
5,750 corpus weight
- saupoudrage
saupoudrage
5,748 corpus weight
- saupoudrée
saupoudrée
5,747 corpus weight
- saver
saver
5,746 corpus weight
- sawa
sawa
5,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saupoudrage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saupoudrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.pu.dʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saupoudrage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saupoudrage is uncommon French at frequency #94,253 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.pu.dʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for saupoudrage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is saupoudrage, spelled S-A-U-P-O-U-D-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de répandre sur quelque chose une petite quantité d’une substance sous forme de poudre, de paillettes ou de petits grains.
- 2Action démagogique consistant à adopter des mesures ayant peu d’efficacité réelle, mais donnant à l’électorat l’impression que les gouvernants agissent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saupoudrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La farine de seigle introduite dans Paris sert surtout à la fabrication du pain d’épices et au fleurage, c’est-à-dire au saupoudrage des panetons où l’on met la pâte au four ; cette opération a pour but de prévenir l’adhérence de la pâte.
Il faut renouveler le saupoudrage [de pyrèthre] pour atteindre les insectes au sortir de l’œuf.
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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