débourrage
French, noun/de.bu.ʁaʒ/
débourrage is spelled D-É-B-O-U-R-R-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Débourrage is a French masculine noun meaning “unblocking, unclogging” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de débourrer”.
What does débourrage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineunblocking, unclogging
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de débourrer. 2. Enlèvement des premières couches de fil d’un cocon de ver à soie. 3. Opération qui permet d'extraire le sable contenu à l'intérieur d'une pièce, après coulée et solidification. 4. Retrait d'un bourrage papier.
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 débourrage
- débourrages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce débourrage?
- /de.bu.ʁaʒ/
- \de.bu.ʁaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is débourrage in French?
débourrage appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).