cannage
French, noun/ka.naʒ/
cannage is spelled C-A-N-N-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cannage is a French masculine noun meaning “caning (working with canes, cane craftwork)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tressage de lanières de canne destiné à confectionner l’assise ou le dossier d’un siège”.
What does cannage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecaning (working with canes, cane craftwork)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tressage de lanières de canne destiné à confectionner l’assise ou le dossier d’un siège. 2. Partie cannée d’un siège. 3. Action de mesurer une étoffe, un tissu, à l’aide d’une canne. 4. Fessée administrée à coups de canne.
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 cannage
- cannages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cannage?
- /ka.naʒ/
- \ka.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cannage in French?
cannage appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).