pucelage
French, noun/py.slaʒ/
pucelage is spelled P-U-C-E-L-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pucelage is a French masculine noun meaning “virginity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une personne vierge, c’est-à-dire qui n’a jamais eu de rapports sexuels”.
What does pucelage mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinevirginity
- 2
masculineinnocence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une personne vierge, c’est-à-dire qui n’a jamais eu de rapports sexuels. 2. Innocence ; inexpérience ; ignorance. 3. Nom vernaculaire du coquillage nommé grain de café (Trivia monacha).
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 pucelage
- pucelages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pucelage?
- /py.slaʒ/
- \pys.laʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pucelage in French?
pucelage appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).