avaleur
French, noun/a.va.lœʁ/
avaleur is spelled A-V-A-L-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avaleur is a French masculine noun meaning “boozer (person who drinks a lot)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui a l’habitude d’avaler les aliments, les boissons”.
What does avaleur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineboozer (person who drinks a lot)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui a l’habitude d’avaler les aliments, les boissons. 2. Synonyme de gargare (poisson).
noun: 1. Ouvrier qui approfondit un puits existant ou qui enfonce un nouveau puits.
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 avaleur
- avaleurs plural
- avaleuse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avaleur?
- /a.va.lœʁ/
- \a.va.lœʁ\
- [a.va.lœʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avaleur in French?
avaleur appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).