fiacre
/fɪˈɑːkɹə/noun
fiacre is a noun meaning “A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-A-C-R-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fiacre is fiacres.
What does fiacre mean?
noun
- 1
A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fiacre?
- UK /fɪˈɑːkɹə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fiacre.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fiacre
- fiacres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fiacre?
Fiacre appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fiacre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small carriage for hire:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fiacre come from?
Borrowed from French fiacre. From Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, a tavern in Paris operating a horse-carriage service from the 1640s, itself named after the Irish Saint Fiacre (c. 600–670 CE), perhaps from Irish fiach (“raven”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).