pliage
French, noun\pli.jaʒ\
pliage is spelled P-L-I-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pliage is a French masculine noun meaning “folding (the act of folding something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de plier, de rejoindre deux bouts d’un même morceau sans le casser”.
What does pliage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefolding (the act of folding something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de plier, de rejoindre deux bouts d’un même morceau sans le casser. 2. Résultat de cette action. 3. Opération consistant à rabattre sur lui-même un matériau en feuille, une ou plusieurs fois. 4. Le fait de déformer plastiquement une tôle par flexion le long d’une ligne, avec une plieuse, formant ainsi un pli.
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 pliage
- pliages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pliage?
- \pli.jaʒ\
- [pli.jaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pliage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pliage in French?
pliage 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).