affûtage
French, noun/a.fy.taʒ/
affûtage is spelled A-F-F-Û-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affûtage is a French masculine noun meaning “sharpening, whetting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’affûter un outil”.
What does affûtage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesharpening, whetting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’affûter un outil. 2. Assortiment de tous les outils nécessaires à un ouvrier. 3. Perte de poids pour atteindre le poids de forme. 4. Période d'entrainement avant une compétition pour préparer un pic de forme physique.
noun: 1. Action d’affuter un outil. 2. Assortiment de tous les outils nécessaires à un ouvrier. 3. Action d’affuter un canon.
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 affûtage
- affûtages plural
- affutage alternative
- affutages plural
- affûtage
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affûtage?
- /a.fy.taʒ/
- \a.fy.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affûtage in French?
affûtage appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).