tamponnage
French, noun/tɑ̃.pɔ.naʒ/
tamponnage is spelled T-A-M-P-O-N-N-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tamponnage is a French masculine noun meaning “buffering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Application d’un liquide à l’aide d’un tampon”.
What does tamponnage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebuffering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Application d’un liquide à l’aide d’un tampon. 2. Technique de peinture à l’aide d’un tampon avec ou sans motif. 3. Matériel utilisé pour remplir une excavation. 4. Application sur la vulve ou dans le vagin d’un dispositif absorbant.
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 tamponnage
- tamponnages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tamponnage?
- /tɑ̃.pɔ.naʒ/
- \tɑ̃.pɔ.naʒ\
- [tɑ̃.pɔ.naʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tamponnage in French?
tamponnage appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).