détonateur
French, noun/de.tɔ.na.tœʁ/
détonateur is spelled D-É-T-O-N-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détonateur is a French masculine noun meaning “detonator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument ou organe d’un mécanisme qui détermine une détonation”.
What does détonateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedetonator
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument ou organe d’un mécanisme qui détermine une détonation. 2. Substance capable de provoquer des explosions violentes.
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 détonateur
- détonateurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détonateur?
- /de.tɔ.na.tœʁ/
- \de.tɔ.na.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 détonateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is détonateur in French?
détonateur appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).