cuvage
French, noun/ky.vaʒ/
cuvage is spelled C-U-V-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written French, the 229,021st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuvage is a French masculine noun meaning “fermentation of crushed grapes in a vat as part of the production of wine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Temps pendant lequel la vendange cuve”.
What does cuvage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefermentation of crushed grapes in a vat as part of the production of wine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Temps pendant lequel la vendange cuve. 2. Bâtiment ou lieu dans lequel se situent les cuves de vinification ou stockage. Utilisé surtout en Beaujolais. Appelé cuverie en Bourgogne, ou cuvier dans d'autres régions. 3. Temps durant lequel un ivrogne cuve.
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 cuvage
- cuvages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuvage?
- /ky.vaʒ/
- \ky.vaʒ\
- [ky.vaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cuvage in French?
cuvage appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).