maquillage
French, noun/ma.ki.jaʒ/
maquillage is spelled M-A-Q-U-I-L-L-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maquillage is a French masculine noun meaning “makeup” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de (se) maquiller le visage”.
What does maquillage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemakeup
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de (se) maquiller le visage. 2. Résultat de cette action. 3. Action de dissimuler, de déformer une réalité, altération, camouflage, falsification, truquage. 4. Produit cosmétique.
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 maquillage
- maquillages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maquillage?
- /ma.ki.jaʒ/
- \ma.ki.jaʒ\
- [makijaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to maquillage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maquillage in French?
maquillage appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).