étier
French, noun/e.tje/
étier is spelled É-T-I-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étier is a French masculine noun meaning “channel for salt marshes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Canal qui sert à conduire l’eau de la mer dans les marais salants”.
What does étier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechannel for salt marshes
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Canal qui sert à conduire l’eau de la mer dans les marais salants.
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 étier
- étiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étier?
- /e.tje/
- \e.tje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is étier in French?
étier appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).