-saure
French, suffix
-saure is spelled S-A-U-R-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -saure is a French masculine suffix meaning “-saur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, saure is a different word: “feminine singular of saur”. On this page, sauré is a different word: “past participle of saurer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Suffixe représentant un lézard, un dinosaure”.
What does -saure mean in English?
suffix
- 1
masculine-saur
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of saur
verb
- 1
past participle of saurer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Variante orthographique de saur.
adjective: 1. Qui a fat l'objet d'un saurage.
suffix: 1. Suffixe représentant un lézard, un dinosaure. 2. Suffixe plaisant formant des mots représentant des fossiles, des vieux débris.
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 -saure
- saurée feminine
- saurés masculine plural
- saurées feminine plural
- saures plural masculine feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is -saure in French?
-saure appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).