aussière
\o.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“aussière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros cordage, très long et formé de trois à quatre torons, qui sert à touer ou à amarrer un bateau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aussiere · aussière · French
aussière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aussière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aussière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aussière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gros cordage, très long et formé de trois à quatre torons, qui sert à touer ou à amarrer un bateau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for aussière in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aussière, spelled A-U-S-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gros cordage, très long et formé de trois à quatre torons, qui sert à touer ou à amarrer un bateau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aussière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] M. Jacquinot, sans perdre de temps, avait fait porter un bout d’aussière sur une de nos chaines, et le navire avait été remis à flots.
Pour virer à court, l'équipage débarquait et manœuvrait à l'aide d'aussières ; on mit six heures pour franchir les cinq milles qui séparaient Rosenving du Cap Tobin.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.