piquage
French, noun/pi.kaʒ/
piquage is spelled P-I-Q-U-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piquage is a French masculine noun meaning “pricking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de piquer”.
What does piquage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepricking
- 2
masculinestinging
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de piquer. 2. Action de planter, de repiquer. 3. Récolte des céréales à la faux. 4. Alimentation par prélèvement sur une liaison adjacente.
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 piquage
- piquages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piquage?
- /pi.kaʒ/
- \pi.kaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is piquage in French?
piquage appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).