chaulage
French, noun/ʃo.laʒ/
chaulage is spelled C-H-A-U-L-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chaulage is a French masculine noun meaning “liming, whitewashing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’employer la chaux, ou du calcaire broyé, pour l’amélioration du sol”.
What does chaulage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineliming, whitewashing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’employer la chaux, ou du calcaire broyé, pour l’amélioration du sol. 2. Enduction des tuiles de chaux et de sable facilitant la récolte des huitres. 3. Traitement à la chaux des semences de céréales pour lutter contre le charbon et la carie.
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 chaulage
- chaulages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chaulage?
- /ʃo.laʒ/
- \ʃo.laʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chaulage in French?
chaulage appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).