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huîtrier

French, noun

huîtrier is spelled H-U-Î-T-R-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written French, the 258,710th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Huîtrier is a French masculine noun meaning “oystercatcher (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, huitrier is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of huîtrier”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Oiseau échassier, limicole cosmopolite, de taille moyenne, friand d'huîtres et de coquillages”.

What does huîtrier mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    oyster

noun

  1. 1

    masculineoystercatcher (bird)

adjective

as huitrier
  1. 1

    post-1990 spelling of huîtrier

noun

as huitrier
  1. 1

    masculinepost-1990 spelling of huîtrier

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui se rapporte aux huîtres ou à l’élevage et à l’industrie des huîtres. → voir ostréiculture

noun: 1. Oiseau échassier, limicole cosmopolite, de taille moyenne, friand d'huîtres et de coquillages.

adjective: 1. Qui se rapporte aux huitres ou à l’élevage et à l’industrie des huitres.

noun: 1. Échassier limicole friand d’huitres et de coquillages.

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 huîtrier

  • huîtrière feminine
  • huîtriers masculine plural
  • huîtrières feminine plural
  • huitrier alternative
  • huitrière feminine
  • huitriers masculine plural
  • huitrières feminine plural
  • huîtrier

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to huîtrier

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is huîtrier in French?

huîtrier appears about once in every 68 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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