mouilleur
French, noun\mu.jœʁ\
mouilleur is spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-U-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mouilleur is a French masculine noun meaning “moistener” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil servant à humecter le dos des étiquettes, des enveloppes ou des timbres-poste que l'on désire…”.
What does mouilleur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wetting, dampening, moistening
noun
- 1
masculinemoistener
- 2
masculineminelayer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui mouille ; qui humecte.
noun: 1. Appareil servant à humecter le dos des étiquettes, des enveloppes ou des timbres-poste que l'on désire coller. On dit aussi mouilloir. 2. Instrument destiné à faciliter le mouillage des ancres. 3. Appareil propre à mouiller les feuilles de tabac, dans les manufactures 4. Navire de guerre spécialisé dans le minage maritime.
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 mouilleur
- mouilleuse feminine
- mouilleurs masculine plural
- mouilleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mouilleur?
- \mu.jœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mouilleur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mouilleur in French?
mouilleur appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).