perforateur
French, noun\pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁa.tœʁ\
perforateur is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-A-T-E-U-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perforateur is a French masculine noun meaning “drill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Machine électroportative qui sert à percer des trous dans les matériaux durs tels que le béton ou la pierre…”.
What does perforateur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
perforating
noun
- 1
masculinedrill
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui perfore.
noun: 1. Machine électroportative qui sert à percer des trous dans les matériaux durs tels que le béton ou la pierre en utilisant la technique de la percussion. 2. Ouvrier préposé au maniement d’un outil ou d’une machine qui perfore.
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 perforateur
- perforatrice feminine
- perforateurs masculine plural
- perforatrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perforateur?
- \pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁa.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is perforateur in French?
perforateur appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).