fouisseur
French, adjective/fwi.sœʁ/
fouisseur is a French adjective meaning “burrowing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui permet de fouir, de creuser”.
What does fouisseur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
burrowing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui permet de fouir, de creuser. 2. Qualifie les animaux qui fouissent.
noun: 1. Animal capable de creuser le sol. 2. Personne qui cherche quelque chose, qui fouine.
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 fouisseur
- fouisseuse feminine
- fouisseurs masculine plural
- fouisseuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fouisseur?
- /fwi.sœʁ/
- \fwi.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 fouisseur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fouisseur in French?
fouisseur appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).