coquillage
French, noun/kɔ.ki.jaʒ/
coquillage is spelled C-O-Q-U-I-L-L-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,423rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coquillage is a French masculine noun meaning “seashell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tout mollusque marin dont le corps est enveloppé dans une coquille”.
What does coquillage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseashell
- 2
masculineshellfish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tout mollusque marin dont le corps est enveloppé dans une coquille. 2. La coquille du mollusque elle-même, voire la valve isolée d’une coquille de bivalve. 3. Vulve, sexe des femmes.
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 coquillage
- coquillages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coquillage?
- /kɔ.ki.jaʒ/
- \kɔ.ki.jaʒ\
- [kɔ.ki.jaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coquillage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coquillage in French?
coquillage 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).