vendange
French, noun
vendange is spelled V-E-N-D-A-N-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,423rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vendange is a French feminine noun meaning “vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of vendanger. With an accent, vendangé is a different word: “past participle of vendanger”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Récolte de raisins pour faire du vin”.
What does vendange mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)
- 2
femininegrapes harvested for wine-making
- 3
femininegrape harvest season
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of vendanger
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Récolte de raisins pour faire du vin. 2. Raisins récoltés pour faire le vin. 3. Temps où se fait la récolte des raisins.
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 vendange
- vendanges plural
- vendangée feminine
- vendangés masculine plural
- vendangées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vendange
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vendange in French?
vendange appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).