sciure
French, noun/sjyʁ/
sciure is spelled S-C-I-U-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sciure is a French feminine noun meaning “sawdust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parcelles qui tombent du bois ou de toute autre matière dure que l’on scie”.
What does sciure mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesawdust
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Parcelles qui tombent du bois ou de toute autre matière dure que l’on scie. 2. Sciure de bois.
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 sciure
- sciures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sciure?
- /sjyʁ/
- \sjyʁ\
- [sjy:ʀ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sciure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sciure in French?
sciure appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).