décuvage
French, noun/de.ky.vaʒ/
décuvage is spelled D-É-C-U-V-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décuvage is a French masculine noun meaning “devatting (removal of wine from the fermentation vats)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de décuver”.
What does décuvage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedevatting (removal of wine from the fermentation vats)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de décuver.
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 décuvage
- décuvages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décuvage?
- /de.ky.vaʒ/
- \de.ky.vaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is décuvage in French?
décuvage appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).