sablage
French, noun/sa.blaʒ/
sablage is spelled S-A-B-L-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sablage is a French masculine noun meaning “sanding; sandblasting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de sabler : recouvrir de sable”.
What does sablage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesanding; sandblasting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de sabler : recouvrir de sable. 2. Action de sabler : projeter du sable (ou, par extension, un autre abrasif) pour décaper une surface.
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 sablage
- sablages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sablage?
- /sa.blaʒ/
- \sa.blaʒ\
- \sɑ.blaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sablage in French?
sablage appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).