farceur
French, noun/faʁ.sœʁ/
farceur is spelled F-A-R-C-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Farceur is a French masculine noun meaning “joker; trickster; prankster, jokester” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui aime à faire ou à dire des choses bouffonnes ou à jouer des tours plaisants aux gens”.
What does farceur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejoker; trickster; prankster, jokester
- 2
datedmasculineactor who plays in a farce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui joue des farces.
noun: 1. Celui qui aime à faire ou à dire des choses bouffonnes ou à jouer des tours plaisants aux gens. 2. Celui qui cherche à en faire accroire. 3. Comédien qui ne joue que dans les farces. Se dit encore par mépris d’un acteur qui charge un rôle comique.
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 farceur
- farceurs plural
- farceuse feminine
- farceuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce farceur?
- /faʁ.sœʁ/
- \faʁ.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 farceur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is farceur in French?
farceur 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).