sabotage
French, noun/sa.bɔ.taʒ/
sabotage is spelled S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sabotage is a French masculine noun meaning “sabotage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de saboter, de détruire le travail d’autrui délibérément”.
What does sabotage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesabotage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de saboter, de détruire le travail d’autrui délibérément. 2. Fabrication des sabots (chaussures). 3. Bruit que font sur le sol les sabots d'une personne qui marche. 4. Opération sur les traverses de chemin de fer consistant à y percer une encoche pour y loger le patin (coussinet) du rail.
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 sabotage
- sabotages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sabotage?
- /sa.bɔ.taʒ/
- \sa.bɔ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sabotage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sabotage in French?
sabotage appears 2.4 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).