scorie
\skɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“scorie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance terreuse ou pierreuse vitrifiée, qui monte comme une écume à la surface des métaux en fusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scorie · scorie · French
scorie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scorie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
scorie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \skɔ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for scorie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is scorie, spelled S-C-O-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Substance terreuse ou pierreuse vitrifiée, qui monte comme une écume à la surface des métaux en fusion.
- 2Scories Thomas.
- 3Fragment de lave de faible densité, de texture poreuse, projeté par un volcan (par similitude avec les scories des métaux).
- 4Connaissance résiduelle d’un paradigme de pensée tombé en désuétude.
- 5Sorte de lave légère du genre de la pierre ponce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scorie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] on poussa jusqu’au pied de la montagne, sur un sol semé de débris décomposés, de scories, de laves poreuses et noires, et de tous les détritus volcaniques.
Le produit obtenu était une loupe impure, très souvent aciéreuse, mêlée à beaucoup de scories ; on la purifiait en la cinglant et en la martelant plusieurs fois.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.