démineur
French, noun/de.mi.nœʁ/
démineur is spelled D-É-M-I-N-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démineur is a French masculine noun meaning “minesweeper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne dont le métier consiste à désactiver des mines, bombes ou autres munitions”.
What does démineur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineminesweeper
- 2
masculineminesweeper
- 3
masculinedeminer (bomb disposal expert)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne dont le métier consiste à désactiver des mines, bombes ou autres munitions. 2. Jeu informatique consistant à déminer une grille.
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 démineur
- démineurs plural
- démineuse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démineur?
- /de.mi.nœʁ/
- \de.mi.nœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démineur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démineur in French?
démineur 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).