échouage
French, noun/e.ʃwaʒ/
échouage is spelled É-C-H-O-U-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échouage is a French feminine noun meaning “beaching, the state of a ship being run aground, or beached, in a voluntary fashion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de faire échouer une embarcation ou résultat de cette action, dans les deux cas de manière volontaire.…”.
What does échouage mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebeaching, the state of a ship being run aground, or beached, in a voluntary fashion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de faire échouer une embarcation ou résultat de cette action, dans les deux cas de manière volontaire. On pratique par exemple l’échouage sur une plage de sable pour caréner.
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 échouage
- échouages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échouage?
- /e.ʃwaʒ/
- \e.ʃwaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is échouage in French?
échouage appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).