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loir

/ˈlɔɪə(ɹ)/noun

loir is a noun meaning “dormouse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-I-R, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of loir is loirs.

What does loir mean?

noun

  1. 1

    dateddormouse

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

How do you pronounce loir?

  • /ˈlɔɪə(ɹ)/

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

Forms of loir

  • loirs plural

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

How common is loir?

Loir appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 loir come from?

From French.

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