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applicateur

French, noun/a.pli.ka.tœʁ/

applicateur is spelled A-P-P-L-I-C-A-T-E-U-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Applicateur is a French masculine noun meaning “applicator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrier qui applique”.

What does applicateur mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineapplicator

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui applique.

noun: 1. Ouvrier qui applique. 2. Celui qui applique une décision. 3. Ustensile destiné à faciliter l’application d’une substance ou d’un objet.

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 applicateur

  • applicateurs plural
  • applicatrice feminine
  • applicatrices plural feminine

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

How do you pronounce applicateur?

  • /a.pli.ka.tœʁ/
  • \a.pli.ka.tœʁ\

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

How common is applicateur in French?

applicateur appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.

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

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