délavage
French, noun/de.la.vaʒ/
délavage is spelled D-É-L-A-V-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délavage is a French masculine noun meaning “the process of fading” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de délaver, de donner un caractère délavé”.
What does délavage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe process of fading
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de délaver, de donner un caractère délavé.
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 délavage
- délavages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce délavage?
- /de.la.vaʒ/
- \de.la.vaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is délavage in French?
délavage appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).