échassier
French, noun/e.ʃa.sje/
échassier is spelled É-C-H-A-S-S-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échassier is a French masculine noun meaning “stiltwalker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Membre d’un groupe d’oiseaux généralement pourvus de longues pattes, comme les cigognes, les grues, les…”.
What does échassier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestiltwalker
- 2
masculineany of a number of wading birds. (Note that this does not always directly correspond to English wading bird.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a de longues jambes.
noun: 1. Membre d’un groupe d’oiseaux généralement pourvus de longues pattes, comme les cigognes, les grues, les bécasses, etc. 2. Celui qui utilise une paire d’échasses pour se déplacer. 3. Personnage ou animal à longues jambes.
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 échassier
- échassiers plural
- échassière singular feminine
- échassières plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échassier?
- /e.ʃa.sje/
- /e.ʃɑ.sje/
- \e.ʃa.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to échassier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is échassier in French?
échassier appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).