filateur
French, noun/fi.la.tœʁ/
filateur is spelled F-I-L-A-T-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filateur is a French masculine noun meaning “spinner (machine, person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui tient, qui exploite, qui dirige une filature”.
What does filateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespinner (machine, person)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui tient, qui exploite, qui dirige une filature. 2. Celui qui tire la soie du cocon.
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 filateur
- filateurs plural
- filatrice feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filateur?
- /fi.la.tœʁ/
- \fi.la.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is filateur in French?
filateur appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).