flâneur
French, noun/fla.nœʁ/
flâneur is spelled F-L-Â-N-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flâneur is a French masculine noun meaning “loafer, idler, dawdler, loiterer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui flâne”.
What does flâneur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineloafer, idler, dawdler, loiterer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui flâne.
adjective: 1. Qui aime à ne rien faire. 2. Qui ne marque aucune hâte, qui prend son temps.
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 flâneur
- flâneurs plural
- flâneuse feminine
- flâneuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flâneur?
- /fla.nœʁ/
- /flɑ.nœʁ/
- \flɑ.nœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flâneur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flâneur in French?
flâneur appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).