griffonnage
French, noun\ɡʁi.fɔ.naʒ\
griffonnage is spelled G-R-I-F-F-O-N-N-A-G-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Griffonnage is a French masculine noun meaning “doodle, scribble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écriture si mal formée qu’il est presque impossible de la lire”.
What does griffonnage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedoodle, scribble
- 2
masculinescrawl
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Écriture si mal formée qu’il est presque impossible de la lire. 2. Action de griffonner.
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 griffonnage
- griffonnages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce griffonnage?
- \ɡʁi.fɔ.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to griffonnage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is griffonnage in French?
griffonnage appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).