tuilage
French, noun\tɥi.laʒ\
tuilage is spelled T-U-I-L-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuilage is a French masculine noun meaning “curling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Opération consistant à passer une tuile sur un drap”.
What does tuilage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecurling
- 2
masculinecupping, dishing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Opération consistant à passer une tuile sur un drap. 2. Interrogatoire sur l'appartenance à la franc-maçonnerie. 3. Technique de chant consistant à accompagner sur ses dernières paroles le chanteur qui précède, afin d’éviter toute interruption. 4. Chevauchement temporaire des phénomènes de deux périodes historiques dans un contexte où la première est graduellement remplacée par la seconde.
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 tuilage
- tuilages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tuilage?
- \tɥi.laʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tuilage in French?
tuilage appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).