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massage

French, noun/ma.saʒ/

massage is a French masculine noun meaning “physical massage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pétrissage des muscles pour les assouplir”.

What does massage mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinephysical massage

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pétrissage des muscles pour les assouplir.

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 massage

  • massages plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce massage?

  • /ma.saʒ/
  • \ma.saʒ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to massage

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is massage in French?

massage appears 6.5 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).