pleureur
French, noun/plœ.ʁœʁ/
pleureur is spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pleureur is a French masculine noun meaning “crier; weeper one who cries or weeps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui pleure”.
What does pleureur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrier; weeper one who cries or weeps
- 2
masculinecrybaby
adjective
- 1
weeping
saule pleureur
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui pleure facilement, larmoyant. 2. Qualifie un arbre ou un arbuste, dont les branches frêles et longues pendent vers la terre. 3. Qui laisse filtrer l’eau.
noun: 1. Celui qui pleure. 2. Celui que, chez les anciens Grecs et les anciens Romains, ou dans certaines régions du monde aujourd’hui, on loue pour pleurer et se lamenter aux funérailles.
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 pleureur
- pleureurs plural
- pleureuse feminine
- pleureuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pleureur?
- /plœ.ʁœʁ/
- \plœ.ʁœʁ\
- [plœ.ʁœʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pleureur in French?
pleureur appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).