herbage
French, noun/ɛʁ.baʒ/
herbage is spelled H-E-R-B-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Herbage is a French masculine noun meaning “pasture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Herbe des prés où sont mis les animaux pour les engraisser”.
What does herbage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepasture
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Herbe des prés où sont mis les animaux pour les engraisser. 2. Prairie naturelle ou artificielle, permanente ou temporaire, pâturée par le bétail, servant à l'engraissement. 3. Toutes sortes d’herbes bonnes à cueillir.
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 herbage
- herbages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce herbage?
- /ɛʁ.baʒ/
- \ɛʁ.baʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to herbage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is herbage in French?
herbage appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).