poussier
French, noun\pu.sje\
poussier is spelled P-O-U-S-S-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poussier is a French masculine noun meaning “coal dust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poussière, résidu de charbon, à l’origine d’explosions meurtrières dans les mines (les « coups de poussier »…”.
What does poussier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecoal dust
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poussière, résidu de charbon, à l’origine d’explosions meurtrières dans les mines (les « coups de poussier » ou « coups de poussière »). 2. Poudre d’artillerie finement tamisée. 3. Lit malpropre, misérable ; taudis. 4. Argent.
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 poussier
- poussiers plural
- pucier
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce poussier?
- \pu.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is poussier in French?
poussier 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).