découpage
French, noun/de.ku.paʒ/
découpage is spelled D-É-C-O-U-P-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written French, the 14,875th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Découpage is a French masculine noun meaning “cutting (action of to cut)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de découper, de faire des morceaux avec un objet coupant”.
What does découpage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecutting (action of to cut)
- 2
masculinedecoupage
- 3
masculinethe division of a script into scenes, sequences, and shots
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de découper, de faire des morceaux avec un objet coupant. 2. Morceaux ; résultat d’un découpage. 3. Séparation d’une narration en séquences. 4. Action de sérier, de séparer des choses semblables.
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 découpage
- découpages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce découpage?
- /de.ku.paʒ/
- \de.ku.paʒ\
- [de.ku.paʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to découpage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is découpage in French?
découpage appears 3.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).