filtreur
French, adjective/fil.tʁœʁ/
filtreur is a French adjective meaning “filter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit d’un animal aquatique qui se nourrit par filtration de micro-organismes ou de particules alimentaires…”.
What does filtreur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
filter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit d’un animal aquatique qui se nourrit par filtration de micro-organismes ou de particules alimentaires en suspension dans l’eau.
noun: 1. Ouvrier qui, dans une fabrique de sucre de betterave, filtre le jus. 2. Animal filtreur.
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 filtreur
- filtreuse feminine
- filtreurs masculine plural
- filtreuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filtreur?
- /fil.tʁœʁ/
- \fil.tʁœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is filtreur in French?
filtreur appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).