alluvion
French, noun/a.ly.vjɔ̃/
alluvion is spelled A-L-L-U-V-I-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alluvion is a French feminine noun meaning “alluvial deposits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Accroissement de terrain qui se fait insensiblement à l’un des bords d’une rivière, ou qui a lieu lorsque la…”.
What does alluvion mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealluvial deposits
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Accroissement de terrain qui se fait insensiblement à l’un des bords d’une rivière, ou qui a lieu lorsque la rivière s’en retire, et qu’elle prend son cours d’un autre côté.
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 alluvion
- alluvions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alluvion?
- /a.ly.vjɔ̃/
- \a.ly.vjɔ̃\
- [a.ly.vjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alluvion
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alluvion in French?
alluvion appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).