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seigneurie

noun

seigneurie is spelled S-E-I-G-N-E-U-R-I-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seigneurie means “An area governed by a seigneur (French noble)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seigneurie is seigneuries.

How many letters and syllables are in seigneurie?

Letters10: S-E-I-G-N-E-U-R-I-E
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is seigneurie?

Seigneurie appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).

Forms of seigneurie

  • seigneuries plural
  • seigneury

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

What does seigneurie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An area governed by a seigneur (French noble).

  2. 2

    CanadaThe estate of a seigneur.

  3. 3

    The official residence of a Seigneur.

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

Where does seigneurie come from?

From French seigneurie.

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

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