cuir
French, noun/kɥiʁ/
cuir is spelled C-U-I-R (4 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuir is a French masculine noun meaning “leather” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peau épaisse de certains animaux”.
What does cuir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineleather
- 2
masculinea speech error consisting of incorrectly inserting a /t/ as a liaison between two words
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peau épaisse de certains animaux. 2. Peau des animaux, quand elle est séparée de la chair et corroyée. 3. Objet fabriqué dans une telle peau. 4. Lanière de cuir tendue que les barbiers et les coiffeurs utilisaient pour parfaire l’affûtage des rasoirs (coupe-choux), pour éliminer le morfil. On le nomme aussi "cuir à repasser".
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cuir
- cuirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuir?
- /kɥiʁ/
- \kɥiʁ\
- [kɥiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cuir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuir in French?
cuir appears 15 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).