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The French word for tile is
carreau





tile

Gender

The gender of carreau is masculine. E.g. le carreau.

Plural

The plural of carreau is carreaux.

French Definition


tile
     1. n. Tuile.
     2. n. (Céramique) Carreau (floor tile).
     3. n. Informatique Tuile.
     4. v. Carreler
     5. v. Informatique Réarranger en tuiles.



Translations for tile and their definitions

carreau
     1. n-m. square (as a geometrical shape)
     2. n-m. (card games) diamonds (card suit)
     3. n-m. tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
     4. n-m. windowpane
     5. n-m. bolt (crossbow projectile)
     6. n-m. (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
     7. n-m. (Louisiana) plot, patch (of land, of cloth)


tuile
     1. n-f. tile
     2. n-f. (colloquial) bad luck, misfortune
           Il m’est arrivé une tuile. - Something bad happened to me.
     3. n-f. (culinary) tuile (thin cookie)
     4. v. first-person singular present indicative of tuiler
     5. v. third-person singular present indicative of tuiler
     6. v. second-person singular imperative of tuiler


tuiler
     1. v. to tile
     2. v. (freemasonry) to tile (a lodge)


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