affabulateur
French, noun/a.fa.by.la.tœʁ/
affabulateur is spelled A-F-F-A-B-U-L-A-T-E-U-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affabulateur is a French masculine noun meaning “inveterate storyteller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui présente des récits purement imaginaires comme la réalité”.
What does affabulateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinveterate storyteller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui présente des récits purement imaginaires comme la réalité.
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 affabulateur
- affabulateurs plural
- affabulatrice feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affabulateur?
- /a.fa.by.la.tœʁ/
- \a.fa.by.la.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affabulateur in French?
affabulateur appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).