trempage
\tʁɑ̃.paʒ\
The verdict
“trempage” is uncommon French (frequency #71,977 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,977
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tremper, d’humecter d’eau ou d'une solution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trempage · trempage · French
trempage · rank #71,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,977
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traversais
Nearest frequency peer: traversais (-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 « trempage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transexuelle
transexuelle
28,027 corpus weight
- Trautmann
Trautmann
28,026 corpus weight
- traversais
traversais
28,025 corpus weight
- trempage
trempage
28,024 corpus weight
- tripotée
tripotée
28,023 corpus weight
- trotskyste
trotskyste
28,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trempage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trempage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.paʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trempage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trempage is uncommon French at frequency #71,977 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.paʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for trempage in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trempage, spelled T-R-E-M-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de tremper, d’humecter d’eau ou d'une solution.
- 2Technique d’émaillage.
- 3Alourdissement des noix de Saint-Jacques par immersion.
- 4Forme d’activité sexuelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trempage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trempage doit être fait jusqu'à complète imbibition et avec le moins de manipulation possible ….
D’où la contrebande et la fameuse pratique du trempage, qui consiste à plonger les noix dans un bain d’eau assaisonnée de polyphosphates, histoire de les gorger de flotte pour qu’elles pèsent plus lourd.
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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