spirée
French, noun/spi.ʁe/
spirée is spelled S-P-I-R-É-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spirée is a French feminine noun meaning “meadowsweet; spiraea (any of the plants in the Spiraea genus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plantes de la famille des rosacées, dont plusieurs espèces servent à l’ornement des jardins”.
What does spirée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemeadowsweet; spiraea (any of the plants in the Spiraea genus)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de plantes de la famille des rosacées, dont plusieurs espèces servent à l’ornement des jardins.
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 spirée
- spirées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spirée?
- /spi.ʁe/
- \spi.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is spirée in French?
spirée appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).