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adoucisseur

French, noun/a.du.si.sœʁ/

adoucisseur is a French masculine noun meaning “water softener” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrier qui polissait les glaces, les miroirs”.

What does adoucisseur mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinewater softener

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ouvrier qui polissait les glaces, les miroirs. 2. Adoucisseur d’eau. 3. Mot ajouté pour faire une requête plus légère et plus acceptable à l’interlocuteur.

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 adoucisseur

  • adoucisseurs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce adoucisseur?

  • /a.du.si.sœʁ/
  • \a.du.si.sœʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is adoucisseur in French?

adoucisseur appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).