transbordement
\tʁɑ̃s.bɔʁ.də.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“transbordement” is uncommon French (frequency #54,305 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,305
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de transborder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transbordement · transbordement · French
transbordement · rank #54,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,305
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tournesols
Nearest frequency peer: tournesols (-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 « transbordement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- torses
torses
45,699 corpus weight
- toucherai
toucherai
45,698 corpus weight
- tournesols
tournesols
45,697 corpus weight
- transbordem…
transbordement
45,696 corpus weight
- tringle
tringle
45,695 corpus weight
- trinquent
trinquent
45,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « transbordement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transbordement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.bɔʁ.də.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #54,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « transbordement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
transbordement is uncommon French at frequency #54,305 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.bɔʁ.də.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
transbordement has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is transbordement, spelled T-R-A-N-S-B-O-R-D-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de transborder.
- 2Action de transférer un chargement d'un navire à un autre, éventuellement avec mise à quai intermédiaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how transbordement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, lorsque ce vaste bassin se sera desséché par suite d’évaporation, pourquoi une voie ferrée, établie sur son lit de sable, ne permettrait-elle pas aux trains d’aller sans transbordement de Bakou à Ouzoun-Ada ?…
Kazan, Kouibychev, Batraki, Volgograd sont de grands centres de transbordement pour les marchandises passant du chemin de fer à la Volga et inversement.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).