tripotage
French, noun/tʁi.pɔ.taʒ/
tripotage is spelled T-R-I-P-O-T-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tripotage is a French masculine noun meaning “fiddling, manipulation, jiggery-pokery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de tripoter”.
What does tripotage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefiddling, manipulation, jiggery-pokery
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de tripoter. 2. Intrigues, propos, manœuvres qui tendent à brouiller une affaire, à semer la discorde entre des personnes, à faire des gains illicites.
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 tripotage
- tripotages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tripotage?
- /tʁi.pɔ.taʒ/
- \tʁi.pɔ.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 tripotage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tripotage in French?
tripotage appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).