sablonnière
French, noun/sa.blɔ.njɛʁ/
sablonnière is spelled S-A-B-L-O-N-N-I-È-R-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sablonnière is a French feminine noun meaning “sandpit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lieu d’où l’on tire du sablon, du sable fin”.
What does sablonnière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesandpit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lieu d’où l’on tire du sablon, du sable fin.
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 sablonnière
- sablonnières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sablonnière?
- /sa.blɔ.njɛʁ/
- /sɑ.blɔ.njɛʁ/
- \sa.blɔ.njɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sablonnière in French?
sablonnière appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).