délateur
French, noun/de.la.tœʁ/
délateur is spelled D-É-L-A-T-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délateur is a French masculine noun meaning “informer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui dénonce”.
What does délateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculineinformer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui dénonce.
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 délateur
- délateurs plural
- délatrice feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce délateur?
- /de.la.tœʁ/
- \de.la.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is délateur in French?
délateur appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).