caviardage
French, noun/ka.vjaʁ.daʒ/
caviardage is spelled C-A-V-I-A-R-D-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caviardage is a French masculine noun meaning “redacting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Suppression de certains passages d'un texte écrit, lesquels sont considérés comme gênants, compromettants ou…”.
What does caviardage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineredacting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Suppression de certains passages d'un texte écrit, lesquels sont considérés comme gênants, compromettants ou immoraux sur ordre d'une censure quelconque.
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 caviardage
- caviardages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caviardage?
- /ka.vjaʁ.daʒ/
- \ka.vjaʁ.daʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is caviardage in French?
caviardage appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).