vapotage
\va.pɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“vapotage” is uncommon French (frequency #61,969 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,969
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consommation de cigarette électronique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vapotage · vapotage · French
vapotage · rank #61,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,969
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH valses
Nearest frequency peer: valses (-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 « vapotage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vaincues
vaincues
38,035 corpus weight
- Valencienno…
Valenciennois
38,034 corpus weight
- valses
valses
38,033 corpus weight
- vapotage
vapotage
38,032 corpus weight
- veda
veda
38,031 corpus weight
- ventral
ventral
38,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vapotage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vapotage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.pɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vapotage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vapotage is uncommon French at frequency #61,969 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.pɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consommation de cigarette électronique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vapotage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vapotage, spelled V-A-P-O-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Consommation de cigarette électronique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vapotage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines entreprises ont ainsi pris la décision d’interdire le « vapotage » dans leurs locaux, comme cette enseigne de matériaux de construction où travaille Jérôme, 38 ans, et où « l’usage de la cigarette électronique sera interdit dans les lieux fermés (bureaux, magasins) et dans les véhicules de la société ».
L’étude démontre également que l’air expiré lors du vapotage contient de nombreuses substances néfastes pour la santé.
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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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