placage
French, noun
placage is spelled P-L-A-C-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,811th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Placage is a French masculine noun meaning “veneer (thin covering of fine wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, plaçage is a different word: “plaçage”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de plaquer”.
What does placage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineveneer (thin covering of fine wood)
- 2
masculinetackle
noun
- 1
masculineplaçage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de plaquer. 2. Ouvrage de menuiserie ou d’ébénisterie, fait de bois précieux scié en feuilles minces qui sont appliquées sur d’autre bois de moindre prix. 3. Doublage visant à renforcer un assemblage. 4. Ouvrages de l’esprit qui semblent faits de morceaux rapportés.
noun: 1. Distribution des places sur un marché.
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 placage
- placages plural
- plaçages plural
- plaquage
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to placage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is placage in French?
placage appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).