terrassements
\tɛ.ʁas.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“terrassements” is uncommon French (frequency #64,823 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,823
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de terrassement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrassements · terrassements · French
terrassements · rank #64,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,823
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terminologique
Nearest frequency peer: terminologique (-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 « terrassements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- templier
templier
35,181 corpus weight
- tentacule
tentacule
35,180 corpus weight
- terminologi…
terminologique
35,179 corpus weight
- terrassemen…
terrassements
35,178 corpus weight
- teva
teva
35,177 corpus weight
- Thermopyles
Thermopyles
35,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrassements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrassements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #64,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrassements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrassements is uncommon French at frequency #64,823 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ.ʁas.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de terrassement.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for terrassements in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is terrassements, spelled T-E-R-R-A-S-S-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de terrassement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terrassements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suivront les travaux de gros œuvre : reprise en sous-œuvre, modification des murs porteurs, démolitions de planchers, terrassements, etc.
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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