frottage
French, noun/fʁɔ.taʒ/
frottage is spelled F-R-O-T-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frottage is a French masculine noun meaning “rubbing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travail de celui qui frotte”.
What does frottage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerubbing
- 2
masculinefrottage
- 3
masculinefrottage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Travail de celui qui frotte. 2. Action de frotter un parquet pour le faire briller 3. Transfert d’une image en relief en crayonnant délicatement un support papier ou autre placé dessus. 4. Acte sensuel impliquant les caresses, pouvant inclure ou non les organes sexuels. → voir frot
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 frottage
- frottages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frottage?
- /fʁɔ.taʒ/
- \fʁɔ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frottage in French?
frottage appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).