Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fiacre

/fɪˈɑːkɹə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English

Syllables: fi-acre
IPA: /fɪˈɑːkɹə/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.

Example Sentences

"On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree."
"Poor Jim, with his arms folded and his little legs out in the open fiacre, drank in the sparkling Paris noon and carried his eyes from one side of their vista to the other."
"The boy who might have fetched us a fiacre was now doing something else, so we had to go back to the station, and there we found only one, which was falling to pieces."

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiacre. From Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, a tavern in Paris operating a horse-carriage service from the 1640s, itself named after the Irish Saint Fiacre (c. 600–670 CE), perhaps from Irish fiach (“raven”).

Origin

Source language: Irish

Word Breakdown

Root: fiach

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /fɪˈɑːkɹə/

Inflected Forms

fiacres (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce fiacre?: The recorded pronunciation is /fɪˈɑːkɹə/.
What does fiacre mean?: A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
Where does fiacre come from?: It is traced to Irish.

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