éclaircissage
French, noun/e.klɛʁ.si.saʒ/
éclaircissage is spelled É-C-L-A-I-R-C-I-S-S-A-G-E (13 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éclaircissage is a French masculine noun meaning “thinning out (of plants)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de supprimer les plants d’un semis, des fruits d’un arbre, etc., pour favoriser la croissance des…”.
What does éclaircissage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethinning out (of plants)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de supprimer les plants d’un semis, des fruits d’un arbre, etc., pour favoriser la croissance des autres. 2. Polissage des métaux, doucissage des verres de montre.
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 éclaircissage
- éclaircissages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éclaircissage?
- /e.klɛʁ.si.saʒ/
- \e.klɛʁ.si.saʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is éclaircissage in French?
éclaircissage appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).