accouvage
French, noun/a.ku.vaʒ/
accouvage is spelled A-C-C-O-U-V-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accouvage is a French masculine noun meaning “incubation (of eggs) and subsequent hatching of chicks (in a hatchery)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Opération qui consiste à incuber des œufs fécondés dans un incubateur puis un éclosoir, pour produire des…”.
What does accouvage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineincubation (of eggs) and subsequent hatching of chicks (in a hatchery)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Opération qui consiste à incuber des œufs fécondés dans un incubateur puis un éclosoir, pour produire des poussins.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of accouvage
- accouvages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accouvage?
- /a.ku.vaʒ/
- \a.ku.vaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is accouvage in French?
accouvage appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).