écaillage
French, noun\e.ka.jaʒ\
écaillage is spelled É-C-A-I-L-L-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 181,983rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écaillage is a French masculine noun meaning “The removal of scales; scaling (of a fish)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’écailler, d’enlever les écailles (d’un poisson, par exemple)”.
What does écaillage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineThe removal of scales; scaling (of a fish)
- 2
masculineoyster shucking
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’écailler, d’enlever les écailles (d’un poisson, par exemple). 2. Action d’ouvrir les huîtres. 3. Action d’enlever le sel qui reste attaché à l’intérieur d’une chaudière. 4. Défaut sur une peinture, un vernis, une poterie, dont la partie visible se détache, s’écaille.
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 écaillage
- écaillages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écaillage?
- \e.ka.jaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is écaillage in French?
écaillage appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).