tréfilage
French, noun\tʁe.fi.laʒ\
tréfilage is spelled T-R-É-F-I-L-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written French, the 194,108th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tréfilage is a French masculine noun meaning “drawing (of wire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de tréfiler, soit passer du fer ou un autre métal par la filière pour l’étirer en fil”.
What does tréfilage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrawing (of wire)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de tréfiler, soit passer du fer ou un autre métal par la filière pour l’étirer en fil.
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 tréfilage
- tréfilages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tréfilage?
- \tʁe.fi.laʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tréfilage in French?
tréfilage appears about once in every 37 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).