usurier
French, noun\y.zy.ʁje\
usurier is spelled U-S-U-R-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Usurier is a French masculine noun meaning “usurer, moneylender; loan shark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prêteur qui prête à un taux d’intérêt trop élevé, un taux usuraire”.
What does usurier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineusurer, moneylender; loan shark
adjective
- 1
acquisitive, avaricious
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Prêteur qui prête à un taux d’intérêt trop élevé, un taux usuraire. 2. Personne qui accroit sa fortune en profitant des malheurs ou des nécessités.
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 usurier
- usuriers plural
- usurière feminine
- usurières feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce usurier?
- \y.zy.ʁje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to usurier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is usurier in French?
usurier appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).