radotage
French, noun/ʁa.dɔ.taʒ/
radotage is spelled R-A-D-O-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Radotage is a French masculine noun meaning “drivel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de celui qui radote”.
What does radotage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrivel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de celui qui radote. 2. Ennuyeuse répétition des mêmes banalités, jusqu'à l'écœurement. 3. Propos sans suite, ou dénués de sens à force d'être répétés.
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 radotage
- radotages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce radotage?
- /ʁa.dɔ.taʒ/
- \ʁa.dɔ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is radotage in French?
radotage appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).