boursicotage
French, noun\buʁ.si.kɔ.taʒ\
boursicotage is spelled B-O-U-R-S-I-C-O-T-A-G-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boursicotage is a French masculine noun meaning “dabbling on the stock exchange” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le fait de faire de petites spéculations boursières”.
What does boursicotage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedabbling on the stock exchange
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Le fait de faire de petites spéculations boursières.
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 boursicotage
- boursicotages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boursicotage?
- \buʁ.si.kɔ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is boursicotage in French?
boursicotage appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).