marrainage
French, noun/ma.ʁɛ.naʒ/
marrainage is spelled M-A-R-R-A-I-N-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written French, the 270,259th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marrainage is a French feminine noun meaning “sponsorship (as a godparent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de marrainer quelqu'un”.
What does marrainage mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesponsorship (as a godparent)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de marrainer quelqu'un. 2. Action, pour une ville de se porter marraine d'une ville ou d'un village détruit par la guerre.
noun: 1. Exploitation de bois de charpente.
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 marrainage
- marrainages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marrainage?
- /ma.ʁɛ.naʒ/
- /ma.ʁe.naʒ/
- \ma.ʁɛ.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is marrainage in French?
marrainage appears about once in every 74 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).