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collaborateur

French, noun/kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tœʁ/

collaborateur is spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-E-U-R (13 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written French, the 9,803rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Collaborateur is a French masculine noun meaning “collaborator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui travaille de concert avec un ou plusieurs autres à une œuvre commune”.

What does collaborateur mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecollaborator

  2. 2

    derogatorymasculineone who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Celui qui travaille de concert avec un ou plusieurs autres à une œuvre commune. 2. Employé. 3. Nom donné, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, aux citoyens des pays occupés qui montraient de la complaisance envers l’occupant ou travaillaient en collaboration avec lui. 4. Celui qui travaille avec un ennemi.

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 collaborateur

  • collaborateurs plural
  • collaboratrice feminine

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

How do you pronounce collaborateur?

  • /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tœʁ/
  • \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tœʁ\

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

English words that translate to collaborateur

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is collaborateur in French?

collaborateur appears 6.0 times per 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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