tondage
\tɔ̃.daʒ\
The verdict
“tondage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tondre le poil des chevaux et d’autres animaux; il s’emploie de préférence à tonte, quand on parle du cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tondage · tondage · French
tondage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tondage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tondage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tondage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ̃.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tondage, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 tondage, spelled T-O-N-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de tondre le poil des chevaux et d’autres animaux; il s’emploie de préférence à tonte, quand on parle du cheval.
- 2Action de tondre les draps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tondage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe quatre qualités de poils de chèvre angora: nᵒ 1 La première est dite de « travail anglais » […]. Elle a été récoltée par le tondage des animaux vivants;
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.