plumage
French, noun/ply.maʒ/
plumage is spelled P-L-U-M-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plumage is a French masculine noun meaning “plumage (a bird's feathers, collectively speaking)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des plumes du corps d’un oiseau”.
What does plumage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplumage (a bird's feathers, collectively speaking)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des plumes du corps d’un oiseau. 2. Ces plumes portées pour l’ornement des hommes et des femmes. 3. Récolte de certains végétaux à gousses par séparation d’avec les feuilles et de la tige.
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 plumage
- plumages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plumage?
- /ply.maʒ/
- \ply.maʒ\
- [ply.maʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plumage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plumage in French?
plumage appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).