émulateur
French, noun/e.my.la.tœʁ/
émulateur is spelled É-M-U-L-A-T-E-U-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émulateur is a French masculine noun meaning “emulator (one who emulates)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de circuits et de programmes qui permet à un ordinateur d’exécuter les instructions d’un ordinateur…”.
What does émulateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineemulator (one who emulates)
- 2
masculineemulator (software)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui incite à l’émulation.
noun: 1. Ensemble de circuits et de programmes qui permet à un ordinateur d’exécuter les instructions d’un ordinateur différent.
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 émulateur
- émulateurs plural
- émulatrice feminine
- émulatrices plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émulateur?
- /e.my.la.tœʁ/
- \e.my.la.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 émulateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émulateur in French?
émulateur appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).