chauffage
French, noun/ʃo.faʒ/
chauffage is spelled C-H-A-U-F-F-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chauffage is a French masculine noun meaning “heating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de chauffer”.
What does chauffage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheating
chauffage central
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de chauffer. 2. Manière de chauffer ; système utilisé pour chauffer. 3. Ce que l’on consume de bois, de mazout, de gaz chaque année pour se chauffer. 4. Droit de couper dans une forêt une certaine quantité de bois à brûler.
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 chauffage
- chauffages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chauffage?
- /ʃo.faʒ/
- \ʃo.faʒ\
- [ʃo.faʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chauffage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chauffage in French?
chauffage appears 12 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).