voltigeur
noun
voltigeur is a noun meaning “One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-T-I-G-E-U-R, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of voltigeur is voltigeurs.
What does voltigeur mean?
noun
- 1
One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars.
- 2
CanadaA ranger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of voltigeur
- voltigeurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is voltigeur?
Voltigeur appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does voltigeur come from?
Borrowed from French voltigeur, from voltiger (“to vault”), Italian volteggiare. See volt (“a tread”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).