cartilage
French, noun/kaʁ.ti.laʒ/
cartilage is spelled C-A-R-T-I-L-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cartilage is a French masculine noun meaning “cartilage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie blanche, dure, lisse, élastique, qui se trouve surtout aux extrémités des os, et qui forme le…”.
What does cartilage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecartilage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie blanche, dure, lisse, élastique, qui se trouve surtout aux extrémités des os, et qui forme le squelette entier de certains poissons.
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 cartilage
- cartilages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cartilage?
- /kaʁ.ti.laʒ/
- \kaʁ.ti.laʒ\
- [kaʁ.ti.laʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cartilage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cartilage in French?
cartilage appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).