fureteur
French, noun/fyʁ.tœʁ/
fureteur is spelled F-U-R-E-T-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fureteur is a French masculine noun meaning “ferreter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui fouille, qui cherche partout”.
What does fureteur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineferreter
- 2
masculinesnooper
- 3
Quebecmasculinebrowser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui aime à fureter, à fouiner.
noun: 1. Celui qui fouille, qui cherche partout. 2. Celui qui est en quête de curiosités, de bibelots, d’estampes anciennes et tout particulièrement de celui, de celle qui fouille dans les vieux papiers, archives, journaux, documents inédits à la recherche de détails inconnus. 3. Celui qui s’enquiert de tout, qui cherche à tout savoir. 4. Chasseur qui chasse avec un furet.
noun: 1. Synonyme de navigateur web.
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 fureteur
- fureteurs plural
- fureteuse feminine
- fureteuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fureteur?
- /fyʁ.tœʁ/
- \fyʁ.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fureteur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fureteur in French?
fureteur appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).