gouailleur
French, adjective/ɡwa.jœʁ/
gouailleur is spelled G-O-U-A-I-L-L-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gouailleur is a French adjective meaning “jeering, mocking, teasing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se plaît à gouailler, à railler”.
What does gouailleur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
jeering, mocking, teasing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se plaît à gouailler, à railler.
noun: 1. Celui qui se plaît à gouailler.
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 gouailleur
- gouailleuse feminine
- gouailleurs masculine plural
- gouailleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gouailleur?
- /ɡwa.jœʁ/
- /ɡwɑ.jœʁ/
- \ɡwɑ.jœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gouailleur in French?
gouailleur appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).