nichoir
French, noun/ni.ʃwaʁ/
nichoir is spelled N-I-C-H-O-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nichoir is a French masculine noun meaning “birdhouse, nest box” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cage adaptée pour faire couver de petits oiseaux, surtout des serins”.
What does nichoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebirdhouse, nest box
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cage adaptée pour faire couver de petits oiseaux, surtout des serins. 2. Panier à claire-voie pour faire couver des poules. 3. Boîte percée d’un orifice et servant aux oiseaux à nicher. 4. Abri naturel ou confectionné par un être humain, destiné aux petits animaux (mammifères, amphibiens) afin qu’ils puissent y nicher.
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 nichoir
- nichoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nichoir?
- /ni.ʃwaʁ/
- \ni.ʃwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nichoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nichoir in French?
nichoir appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).