rivage
French, noun/ʁi.vaʒ/
rivage is spelled R-I-V-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rivage is a French masculine noun meaning “bank; shore; coast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie de la terre qui borde la mer”.
What does rivage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebank; shore; coast
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie de la terre qui borde la mer. 2. Se dit aussi en parlant des fleuves, des rivières, des lacs. 3. Toute sorte de rebord, de précipice, de délimitation, de frontière, de net séparation. 4. Pays ; contrée.
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 rivage
- rivages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rivage?
- /ʁi.vaʒ/
- \ʁi.vaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rivage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rivage in French?
rivage appears 3.0 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).