innovateur
French, noun/i.nɔ.va.tœʁ/
innovateur is spelled I-N-N-O-V-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,936th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Innovateur is a French masculine noun meaning “innovator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui est à l’origine de nouveauté”.
What does innovateur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
innovative
noun
- 1
masculineinnovator
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui est à l’origine de nouveauté. 2. Chef d’entreprise ou salarié, qui, au sein d’une entreprise, innove ou fait des innovations. 3. Individu et plus particulièrement consommateur, qui innove en adoptant en premier une innovation proposée.
adjective: 1. Qui innove. 2. Qui recherche la nouveauté. 3. Qui tend à innover en politique. 4. Qui est favorable à la vie moderne.
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 innovateur
- innovatrice feminine
- innovateurs masculine plural
- innovatrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce innovateur?
- /i.nɔ.va.tœʁ/
- \i.nɔ.va.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 innovateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is innovateur in French?
innovateur appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).