profanateur
French, noun\pʁɔ.fa.na.tœʁ\
profanateur is spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-A-T-E-U-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Profanateur is a French masculine noun meaning “profaner, defiler (especially of tombs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui profane les choses sacrées”.
What does profanateur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
profanatory, defiling
noun
- 1
masculineprofaner, defiler (especially of tombs)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui profane les choses sacrées.
adjective: 1. Qui profane les choses sacrées.
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 profanateur
- profanatrice feminine
- profanateurs masculine plural
- profanatrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce profanateur?
- \pʁɔ.fa.na.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is profanateur in French?
profanateur appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).