syllabaire
French, noun/si.la.bɛʁ/
syllabaire is spelled S-Y-L-L-A-B-A-I-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Syllabaire is a French masculine noun meaning “syllabary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de symboles utilisés pour représenter les syllabes d’une langue, à la différence d’un alphabet où…”.
What does syllabaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesyllabary
adjective
- 1
syllabic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Syllabique.
noun: 1. Ensemble de symboles utilisés pour représenter les syllabes d’une langue, à la différence d’un alphabet où les symboles représentent des sons ou des phonèmes. 2. Abécédaire. 3. Rudiments, connaissances élémentaires. Fondamentaux.
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 syllabaire
- syllabaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce syllabaire?
- /si.la.bɛʁ/
- \si.la.bɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to syllabaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is syllabaire in French?
syllabaire appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).