saucissonnage
French, noun/so.si.sɔ.naʒ/
saucissonnage is spelled S-A-U-C-I-S-S-O-N-N-A-G-E (13 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saucissonnage is a French masculine noun meaning “chopping up, interrupting, salami slicing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Découpage en tranches, en petits pas, en petites étapes successives et progressives”.
What does saucissonnage mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinechopping up, interrupting, salami slicing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Découpage en tranches, en petits pas, en petites étapes successives et progressives. 2. Ligature sous contrainte d’une victime ficelée comme un saucisson. 3. Fraude informatique consistant à transférer de petites sommes à partir d’un grand nombre de sources. 4. Préparation d’une mine à l’aide de saucissons (boudins de toile de deux à trois centimètres de diamètre remplis de poudre pour porter le feu à la mine).
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 saucissonnage
- saucissonnages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saucissonnage?
- /so.si.sɔ.naʒ/
- \so.si.sɔ.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is saucissonnage in French?
saucissonnage appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).