vêlage
\vɛ.laʒ\
The verdict
“vêlage” is uncommon French (frequency #96,497 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,497
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de mettre bas, de vêler en parlant des vaches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-velage · vêlage · French
vêlage · rank #96,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,497
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Volsques
Nearest frequency peer: Volsques (-2 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 « vêlage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vitrerie
vitrerie
3,509 corpus weight
- vocalisation
vocalisation
3,508 corpus weight
- Volsques
Volsques
3,506 corpus weight
- vêlage
vêlage
3,504 corpus weight
- wargame
wargame
3,500 corpus weight
- warming
warming
3,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vêlage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vêlage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vêlage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vêlage is uncommon French at frequency #96,497 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛ.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vêlage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vêlage, spelled V-Ê-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de mettre bas, de vêler en parlant des vaches.
- 2Rupture d’un glacier donnant naissance à un bloc de glace, à un iceberg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vêlage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’indice reproducteur du troupeau est de quatre produits par bufflonne tous les cinq ans. Le premier vêlage a lieu à deux ans et demi et le premier œstrus post-partum apparaît parfois très tôt (trois semaines) après la mise bas ; il est ovulatoire.
Les glaciers du Spitzberg, bien que très importants, ne débitent pas d’icebergs ; leur conformation ainsi que les fonds réduits de la mer à leur base, ne permettent pas le vêlage d’ice-blocs.
Synonyms
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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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