manœuvrier
French, noun/ma.nœ.vʁi.je/
manœuvrier is spelled M-A-N-Œ-U-V-R-I-E-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). Manœuvrier is a French masculine noun meaning “tactician” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui s’entend à la manœuvre des vaisseaux”.
What does manœuvrier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetactician
- 2
masculinemanipulator
adjective
- 1
tactical
- 2
manipulative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui s’entend à la manœuvre des vaisseaux. 2. Celui qui s’entend à la manœuvre des troupes de terre. 3. Celui qui s’entend à manœuvrer, dans son intérêt, dans celui de son parti.
adjective: 1. Qui exécute bien les manœuvres.
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 manœuvrier
- manœuvriers plural
- manœuvrière feminine
- manœuvrières feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce manœuvrier?
- /ma.nœ.vʁi.je/
- \ma.nœ.vʁi.je\
- \ma.nø.vʁi.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is manœuvrier in French?
manœuvrier 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).