pillage
French, noun/pi.jaʒ/
pillage is a French masculine noun meaning “pillage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de piller, ou dégât qui en est la suite”.
What does pillage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepillage
Near-synonym: déprédation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de piller, ou dégât qui en est la suite. 2. Attaque d’une colonie par une autre pour lui voler ses réserves de nourriture.
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 pillage
- pillages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pillage?
- /pi.jaʒ/
- \pi.jaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pillage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pillage in French?
pillage appears 3.0 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).