gaufrage
French, noun/ɡo.fʁaʒ/
gaufrage is spelled G-A-U-F-R-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gaufrage is a French masculine noun meaning “embossing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de gaufrer”.
What does gaufrage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineembossing
- 2
masculinegoffering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de gaufrer. 2. Procédé de formage consistant à presser une feuille entre une matrice et une contre-matrice, afin de créer des formes en relief dans une feuille de papier.
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 gaufrage
- gaufrages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gaufrage?
- /ɡo.fʁaʒ/
- \ɡo.fʁaʒ\
- [ɡo.fʁaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gaufrage in French?
gaufrage appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).