magouillage
French, noun/ma.ɡu.jaʒ/
magouillage is spelled M-A-G-O-U-I-L-L-A-G-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Magouillage is a French masculine noun meaning “trickery; wrangling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Magouille, action de magouiller”.
What does magouillage mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinetrickery; wrangling
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Magouille, action de magouiller.
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 magouillage
- magouillages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce magouillage?
- /ma.ɡu.jaʒ/
- \ma.ɡu.jaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to magouillage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is magouillage in French?
magouillage appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).