vidage
\vi.daʒ\
The verdict
“vidage” is uncommon French (frequency #67,198 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,198
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de vider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vidage · vidage · French
vidage · rank #67,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,198
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vexés
Nearest frequency peer: vexés (-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 « vidage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ventilé
ventilé
32,806 corpus weight
- verdâtres
verdâtres
32,805 corpus weight
- vexés
vexés
32,804 corpus weight
- vidage
vidage
32,803 corpus weight
- vieilleries
vieilleries
32,802 corpus weight
- viles
viles
32,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vidage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vidage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vidage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vidage is uncommon French at frequency #67,198 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vidage 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vidage, spelled V-I-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de vider.
- 2Bourrelet formé de la terre extraite pour le creusement d’un canal et rejetée de chaque côté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vidage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est évident que les hautes pressions énervent plus le chiffon, amènent un plus fort déchet au moment du vidage de la lessive, et occasionnent des détériorations parfois graves dans les lessiveurs cylindriques.
Le vidage effectué, les assistants ont pu s'assurer que le réservoir vide ne répandait pas plus d'odeur que dans l'état de plénitude; et que si quelques traces d'odeur apparaissaient, dans le cabinet, en niveau seulement de la cuvette, — […] — elles disparaissent immédiatement et complétement par le remplissage, à nouveau, de ce dernier.
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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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