pinailleur
French, noun/pi.na.jœʁ/
pinailleur is spelled P-I-N-A-I-L-L-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written French, the 192,066th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinailleur is a French masculine noun meaning “nitpicker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui pinaille”.
What does pinailleur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
nitpicking
noun
- 1
masculinenitpicker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui pinaille.
adjective: 1. Qui pinaille.
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 pinailleur
- pinailleuse feminine
- pinailleurs masculine plural
- pinailleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pinailleur?
- /pi.na.jœʁ/
- \pi.na.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 pinailleur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pinailleur in French?
pinailleur appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).