mucilage
French, noun/my.si.laʒ/
mucilage is spelled M-U-C-I-L-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mucilage is a French masculine noun meaning “mucilage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matière végétale visqueuse formée de polysaccharides hydrophiles, présente dans certaines plantes, en…”.
What does mucilage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemucilage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matière végétale visqueuse formée de polysaccharides hydrophiles, présente dans certaines plantes, en particulier dans les racines, les graines ou les parois cellulaires. Elle gonfle au contact de l’eau et est utilisée pour ses propriétés émollientes, épaississantes ou protectrices des muqueuses. 2. Mucus, substance visqueuse sécrétée par les escargots et autres gastéropodes → voir mucus.
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 mucilage
- mucilages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mucilage?
- /my.si.laʒ/
- \my.si.laʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mucilage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mucilage in French?
mucilage appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).