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bouilleur

French, noun/bu.jœʁ/

bouilleur is spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-E-U-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouilleur is a French masculine noun meaning “boiler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Long cylindre en tôle, placé horizontalement sous la chaudière d’une machine à vapeur et en contact direct…”.

What does bouilleur mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineboiler

  2. 2

    masculineFormula One engine

  3. 3

    masculinea person who distils spirits (at home)

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Long cylindre en tôle, placé horizontalement sous la chaudière d’une machine à vapeur et en contact direct avec le feu. 2. Moteur d’une F1.

noun: 1. Personne qui fait bouillir, qui distille une boisson ou un moût alcoolisé, pour en faire de l’eau-de-vie.

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 bouilleur

  • bouilleurs plural
  • bouilleuse feminine

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

How do you pronounce bouilleur?

  • /bu.jœʁ/
  • \bu.jœʁ\

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

How common is bouilleur in French?

bouilleur appears about once in every 16 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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