connaisseur
French, noun/kɔ.nɛ.sœʁ/
connaisseur is spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-E-U-R (11 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Connaisseur is a French masculine noun meaning “connoisseur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui se connaît à diverses choses dans un domaine donné, notamment les beaux-arts ou la gastronomie”.
What does connaisseur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconnoisseur
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui s'y connaît.
noun: 1. Celui qui se connaît à diverses choses dans un domaine donné, notamment les beaux-arts ou la gastronomie.
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 connaisseur
- connaisseurs plural
- connaisseuse feminine
- connoisseur alternative obsolete
- connaisseuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce connaisseur?
- /kɔ.nɛ.sœʁ/
- /kɔ.ne.sœʁ/
- \kɔ.nɛ.sœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to connaisseur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is connaisseur in French?
connaisseur appears 2.4 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).