phage
French, noun/faʒ/
phage is spelled P-H-A-G-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phage is a French masculine noun meaning “synonym of bactériophage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bactériophage”.
What does phage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesynonym of bactériophage
suffix
- 1
-phage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Qui se nourrit de quelque chose (indique une habitude alimentaire). 2. Qui se nourrit d’une certaine manière (indique une façon de manger, de s’alimenter). 3. Qui consomme quelque chose. 4. Qui avale quelque chose.
noun: 1. Bactériophage.
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 phage
- phages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce phage?
- /faʒ/
- \faʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to phage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is phage in French?
phage 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).