verdage
\vɛʁ.daʒ\
The verdict
“verdage” 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) - Plantes enterrées, juste avant maturité, afin de former de l’engrais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verdage · verdage · French
verdage · 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 "V" 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 | verdage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verdage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verdage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛʁ.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plantes enterrées, juste avant maturité, afin de former de l’engrais.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for verdage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is verdage, spelled V-E-R-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Plantes enterrées, juste avant maturité, afin de former de l’engrais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verdage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Engrais de verdages : pour les terres que l’on n’a pas pu fumer … il est très utile d’y semer des plantes, telles que le maïs, le sarrasin, le trèfle, & surtout la vesce, & … de retourner à la charrue ces plantes, & de les laisser pourrir ainsi enterrées dans le sol qui les avait produites. On enrichit ainsi ce sol des sels & des huiles que ces plantes av…
1712. — Le sarrasin est-il une plante fourragère ou une céréale ? « Si on s'en rapporte à l'opinion du sieur Lefèvre (curé de Goulet) le sarrasin est verdage et la dîme des verdages lui appartient. […]. »
Synonyms
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.