scorsonère
French, noun/skɔʁ.sɔ.nɛʁ/
scorsonère is spelled S-C-O-R-S-O-N-È-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scorsonère is a French feminine noun meaning “black salsify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de composées, dont l’espèce la plus connue, à racine noire en dessus et blanche en dedans, se mange…”.
What does scorsonère mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineblack salsify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de composées, dont l’espèce la plus connue, à racine noire en dessus et blanche en dedans, se mange cuite, comme le salsifis.
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 scorsonère
- scorsonères plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scorsonère?
- /skɔʁ.sɔ.nɛʁ/
- \skɔʁ.sɔ.nɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is scorsonère in French?
scorsonère appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).