clonage
French, noun/klɔ.naʒ/
clonage is spelled C-L-O-N-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clonage is a French masculine noun meaning “cloning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Technique de reproduction d’un être vivant, génétiquement identique à un autre préexistant. → voir clonage…”.
What does clonage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecloning
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Technique de reproduction d’un être vivant, génétiquement identique à un autre préexistant. → voir clonage reproductif 2. Technique de production d’un clone cellulaire, ensemble de cellules partageant le même génome. → voir clonage cellulaire 3. (Biologie moléculaire) Technique de multiplication à l’identique d’un fragment d’ADN. → voir clonage moléculaire et clonage à l’aveugle 4. Fait de reproduire à l’identique.
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 clonage
- clonages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clonage?
- /klɔ.naʒ/
- \klo.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clonage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clonage in French?
clonage 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).