excavation
French, noun/ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃/
excavation is spelled E-X-C-A-V-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excavation is a French feminine noun meaning “excavation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de creuser un terrain”.
What does excavation mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexcavation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de creuser un terrain. 2. Creux fait dans un terrain, soit de main d’homme ou par un instrument, soit par un accident naturel.
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 excavation
- excavations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce excavation?
- /ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃/
- \ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is excavation in French?
excavation appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).