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numérateur

French, noun/ny.me.ʁa.tœʁ/

numérateur is spelled N-U-M-É-R-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Numérateur is a French masculine noun meaning “numerator (number or expression written above the line in a fraction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Premier terme d’une fraction, écrit au-dessus du trait de fraction ou avant son trait oblique”.

What does numérateur mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinenumerator (number or expression written above the line in a fraction)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Premier terme d’une fraction, écrit au-dessus du trait de fraction ou avant son trait oblique.

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 numérateur

  • numérateurs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce numérateur?

  • /ny.me.ʁa.tœʁ/
  • \ny.me.ʁa.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 numérateur

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is numérateur in French?

numérateur appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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