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étirage

French, noun\e.ti.ʁaʒ\

étirage is spelled É-T-I-R-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étirage is a French masculine noun meaning “stretching” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’étirer”.

What does étirage mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestretching

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action d’étirer. 2. Action de façonner des métaux en fils. 3. Opération qui a pour but de faire glisser les filaments les uns sur les autres afin de réduire la section des fils en les allongeant.

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 étirage

  • étirages plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce étirage?

  • \e.ti.ʁaʒ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is étirage in French?

étirage appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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