hameçonnage
French, noun/am.sɔ.naʒ/
hameçonnage is spelled H-A-M-E-Ç-O-N-N-A-G-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 76,422nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hameçonnage is a French masculine noun meaning “phishing; a phishing scam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Technique de fraude visant à obtenir des informations confidentielles, telles que des mots de passe ou des…”.
What does hameçonnage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephishing; a phishing scam
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Technique de fraude visant à obtenir des informations confidentielles, telles que des mots de passe ou des numéros de cartes de crédit, au moyen de messages ou de sites usurpant l’identité d’institutions financières ou d’entreprises commerciales. 2. Leurre, moyen trompeur utilisé pour attirer quelqu'un.
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 hameçonnage
- hameçonnages plural
- ^((h muet))\am.sɔ.naʒ\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hameçonnage?
- /am.sɔ.naʒ/
- \am.sɔ.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 hameçonnage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hameçonnage in French?
hameçonnage appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).