bauge
French, noun
bauge is spelled B-A-U-G-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bauge is a French feminine noun meaning “cob (for walls)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of bauger. With an accent, baugé is a different word: “past participle of bauger”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gite fangeux du sanglier”.
What does bauge mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecob (for walls)
- 2
femininewallow (for pig, boar etc.)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of bauger
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gite fangeux du sanglier. 2. Gite d’un animal. 3. Habitation mal tenue. 4. Mortier de terre grasse mêlée de paille.
adjective: 1. À l’abri, terré.
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 bauge
- bauges plural
- baugée feminine
- baugés masculine plural
- baugées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bauge in French?
bauge appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).