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fourdrinier

noun

fourdrinier is a noun meaning “A machine for making continuous rolls of paper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-R-D-R-I-N-I-E-R, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fourdrinier is fourdriniers.

What does fourdrinier mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A machine for making continuous rolls of paper.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fourdrinier

  • fourdriniers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fourdrinier?

Fourdrinier appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).

Where does fourdrinier come from?

Named after Henry Fourdrinier, its joint inventor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).