matage
French, noun/ma.taʒ/
matage is spelled M-A-T-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matage is a French masculine noun meaning “matting (surface roughening, e.g. by etching or frosting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de mater, résultat de cette action”.
What does matage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinematting (surface roughening, e.g. by etching or frosting)
- 2
masculinelocal plastic deformation due to a contact pressure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de mâter.
noun: 1. Action de mater, résultat de cette action. 2. Produit utilisé pour mater une peinture. 3. Compression, refoulement d’un métal assez malléable. Le matage peut être volontaire, pour mettre en forme une pièce ou modifier ses caractéristiques de surface (par exemple grenaillage), ou indésirable : c’est alors un mode de dégradation d’une pièce. 4. Répression d'un acte de résistance, d'une manifestation, d'une révolte.
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 matage
- matages plural
- mâtages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matage?
- /ma.taʒ/
- \mɑ.taʒ\
- \ma.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is matage in French?
matage 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).