écrêtage
French, noun/e.kʁɛ.taʒ/
écrêtage is spelled É-C-R-Ê-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written French, the 192,066th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écrêtage is a French masculine noun meaning “clipping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait d’écrêter”.
What does écrêtage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclipping
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait d’écrêter. 2. Limitation d’un signal trop puissant. 3. Élimination de la partie d’un élément graphique dépassant les limites d’une fenêtre.
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 écrêtage
- écrêtages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écrêtage?
- /e.kʁɛ.taʒ/
- /e.kʁe.taʒ/
- \e.kʁɛ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is écrêtage in French?
écrêtage appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).