percolateur
French, noun\pɛʁ.kɔ.la.tœʁ\
percolateur is spelled P-E-R-C-O-L-A-T-E-U-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 122,418th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Percolateur is a French masculine noun meaning “percolator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil servant à la lixiviation de diverses substances, généralement des végétaux”.
What does percolateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepercolator
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appareil servant à la lixiviation de diverses substances, généralement des végétaux. 2. Grand récipient muni d’une poignée, sur lequel est monté un filtre qui permet de préparer du café selon le processus de lixiviation, de l’eau très chaude à travers le café moulu, et utilisé pour une consommation de café en grande quantité.
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 percolateur
- percolateurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce percolateur?
- \pɛʁ.kɔ.la.tœʁ\
- [pɛʁ.kɔ.la.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 percolateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is percolateur in French?
percolateur appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).