marécage
French, noun/ma.ʁe.kaʒ/
marécage is a French masculine noun meaning “marshland, swamp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étendue de terre saturée d'eau pendant la plus grande partie de l'année, et dont la surface du sol n'est…”.
What does marécage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemarshland, swamp
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étendue de terre saturée d'eau pendant la plus grande partie de l'année, et dont la surface du sol n'est généralement recouverte que d'une faible profondeur d'eau. 2. Endroit malsain ; chose malsaine.
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 marécage
- marécages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marécage?
- /ma.ʁe.kaʒ/
- \ma.ʁe.kaʒ\
- [ma.ʁe.kaʒ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to marécage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is marécage in French?
marécage 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).