écimage
French, noun/e.si.maʒ/
écimage is spelled É-C-I-M-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écimage is a French masculine noun meaning “the act of pollarding, the act of cutting off the top of a tree to allow better growth in the lower branches” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’écimer”.
What does écimage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe act of pollarding, the act of cutting off the top of a tree to allow better growth in the lower branches
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’écimer. 2. Action de couper les inflorescences en hauteur.
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 écimage
- écimages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écimage?
- /e.si.maʒ/
- \e.si.maʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is écimage in French?
écimage appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).