cuirassier
\kɥi.ʁa.sje\
The verdict
“cuirassier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cavalier armé d’une cuirasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuirassier · cuirassier · French
cuirassier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | cuirassier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.ʁa.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cuirassier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɥi.ʁa.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuirassier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cuirassier, spelled C-U-I-R-A-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cavalier armé d’une cuirasse.
- 2Soldat d’un corps de cavalerie lourde dont la cuirasse et le casque étaient d’acier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuirassier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un régiment de cuirassiers.
Capitaine de cuirassiers.
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.