rouissage
French, noun/ʁwi.saʒ/
rouissage is spelled R-O-U-I-S-S-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rouissage is a French masculine noun meaning “retting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de faire rouir le lin, le chanvre ou la ramie”.
What does rouissage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineretting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de faire rouir le lin, le chanvre ou la ramie. 2. Action de faire rouir le manioc.
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 rouissage
- rouissages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rouissage?
- /ʁwi.saʒ/
- \ʁwi.saʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rouissage in French?
rouissage appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).