virage
French, noun/vi.ʁaʒ/
virage is spelled V-I-R-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Virage is a French masculine noun meaning “bend, turn, curve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de faire tourner un véhicule, un avion, etc”.
What does virage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebend, turn, curve
- 2
masculinechange, shift (in orientation)
- 3
masculineturn
- 4
masculinechange in colour
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de faire tourner un véhicule, un avion, etc. 2. Endroit où l’on tourne. 3. Changement de politique, de dessein, de ligne de pensée. 4. Action de virer de bord.
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 virage
- virages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce virage?
- /vi.ʁaʒ/
- \vi.ʁaʒ\
- [vi.ʁaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to virage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is virage in French?
virage appears 8.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).