mordançage
French, noun/mɔʁ.dɑ̃.saʒ/
mordançage is spelled M-O-R-D-A-N-Ç-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written French, the 229,021st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mordançage is a French masculine noun meaning “mordanting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de dégrader légèrement une surface, à l’aide d’un mordant, afin de faciliter l’adhérence d’un autre…”.
What does mordançage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemordanting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de dégrader légèrement une surface, à l’aide d’un mordant, afin de faciliter l’adhérence d’un autre produit, tel qu’une couleur, une colle.
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 mordançage
- mordançages plural
- morçandage
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mordançage?
- /mɔʁ.dɑ̃.saʒ/
- \mɔʁ.dɑ̃.saʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mordançage in French?
mordançage appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).