héliogravure
French, noun/e.ljɔ.ɡʁa.vyʁ/
héliogravure is spelled H-É-L-I-O-G-R-A-V-U-R-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Héliogravure is a French feminine noun meaning “heliogravure, rotogravure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de photogravure en creux, qui se tire comme la gravure en taille-douce”.
What does héliogravure mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineheliogravure, rotogravure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de photogravure en creux, qui se tire comme la gravure en taille-douce.
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 héliogravure
- héliogravures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce héliogravure?
- /e.ljɔ.ɡʁa.vyʁ/
- \e.ljɔ.ɡʁa.vyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is héliogravure in French?
héliogravure appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).