ouvroir
French, noun/u.vʁwaʁ/
ouvroir is spelled O-U-V-R-O-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ouvroir is a French masculine noun meaning “workroom, sewing room” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lieu de travail”.
What does ouvroir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineworkroom, sewing room
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lieu de travail. 2. Salle où les religieuses se réunissent pour travailler à différents ouvrages. 3. Sorte d’asile ou d’atelier de charité où des jeunes filles se réunissent pour travailler sous la direction de religieuses. 4. Endroit où des dames viennent travailler pour les pauvres ou exécuter des ornements d’église.
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 ouvroir
- ouvroirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ouvroir?
- /u.vʁwaʁ/
- \uv.ʁwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ouvroir in French?
ouvroir appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).