marivaudage
French, noun/ma.ʁi.vo.daʒ/
marivaudage is spelled M-A-R-I-V-A-U-D-A-G-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marivaudage is a French masculine noun meaning “marivaudage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Façon de parler ou d'écrire qui rappelle le style de Marivaux par la légèreté du ton dans des propos qui…”.
What does marivaudage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemarivaudage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Façon de parler ou d'écrire qui rappelle le style de Marivaux par la légèreté du ton dans des propos qui parlent d'amour. 2. Manière d’écrire recherchée et quintessenciée.
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 marivaudage
- marivaudages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marivaudage?
- /ma.ʁi.vo.daʒ/
- \ma.ʁi.vo.daʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is marivaudage in French?
marivaudage appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).