vannage
French, noun\va.naʒ\
vannage is spelled V-A-N-N-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vannage is a French masculine noun meaning “winnowing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nettoyage des grains au moyen d’un van”.
What does vannage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewinnowing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nettoyage des grains au moyen d’un van. 2. Séparation des éléments les plus fins d’un sédiment par l’action de l'eau ou du vent. 3. Ensemble de vannes, disposition de vannes.
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 vannage
- vannages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vannage?
- \va.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vannage in French?
vannage appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).