pessière
French, noun/pɛ.sjɛʁ/
pessière is spelled P-E-S-S-I-È-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pessière is a French feminine noun meaning “spruce wood or forest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lieu peuplé d’épicéas”.
What does pessière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininespruce wood or forest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lieu peuplé d’épicéas.
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 pessière
- pessières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pessière?
- /pɛ.sjɛʁ/
- /pe.sjɛʁ/
- \pɛ.sjɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pessière in French?
pessière appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).