niveleur
French, noun/ni.vlœʁ/
niveleur is spelled N-I-V-E-L-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Niveleur is a French masculine noun meaning “leveler (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui dont le métier est de niveler”.
What does niveleur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineleveler (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qualifie ce qui nivèle.
noun: 1. Celui dont le métier est de niveler. 2. Mineur chargé de repousser le charbon juste tombé au sol. 3. Celui qui prétend niveler les fortunes, les conditions. 4. Herse sans pointe servant à aplanir le sol.
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 niveleur
- niveleurs plural
- niveleuse feminine
- niveleuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce niveleur?
- /ni.vlœʁ/
- \niv.lœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is niveleur in French?
niveleur appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).