fluage
French, noun/fly.aʒ/
fluage is spelled F-L-U-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fluage is a French masculine noun meaning “creep (progressive deformation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déformation progressive d'un matériau soumis à un effort prolongé. (Par opposition à la déformation…”.
What does fluage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecreep (progressive deformation)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Déformation progressive d'un matériau soumis à un effort prolongé. (Par opposition à la déformation élastique, qui, à charge constante, est indépendante du temps.)
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 fluage
- fluages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fluage?
- /fly.aʒ/
- \fly.aʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fluage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fluage in French?
fluage appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).