traversier
French, noun/tʁa.vɛʁ.sje/
traversier is spelled T-R-A-V-E-R-S-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traversier is a French masculine noun meaning “ferry (for cars, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Navire servant à faire traverser plans d’eau et rivières aux automobiles, piétons et wagons de chemin de fer”.
What does traversier mean in English?
adjective
- 1
crossing, transverse
flûte traversière
noun
- 1
Canadamasculineferry (for cars, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui traverse. Il n’est guère usité que dans les expressions suivantes : 2. Qui permet aux bâtiments de se rendre alternativement d’un lieu à un autre, dans les deux sens opposés, en parlant d’un vent. 3. Dont on joue en la mettant de travers, presque horizontalement sur les lèvres, en parlant d’une flûte
noun: 1. Navire servant à faire traverser plans d’eau et rivières aux automobiles, piétons et wagons de chemin de fer. 2. Traversin.
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 traversier
- traversière feminine
- traversiers masculine plural
- traversières feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce traversier?
- /tʁa.vɛʁ.sje/
- \tʁa.vɛʁ.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is traversier in French?
traversier 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).