voyageur
noun
voyageur is a noun meaning “A trader, particularly in furs, who worked (and explored) in the area of Canada and the northern United States from the 16th to early 19th centuries…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-Y-A-G-E-U-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of voyageur is voyageurs.
What does voyageur mean?
noun
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A trader, particularly in furs, who worked (and explored) in the area of Canada and the northern United States from the 16th to early 19th centuries; they were often of Quebecois extraction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of voyageur
- voyageurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is voyageur?
Voyageur appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 voyageur come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Canadian French voyageur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).