profiteur

French, noun/pʁɔ.fi.tœʁ/

profiteur is spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-E-U-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Profiteur is a French masculine noun meaning “profiteer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui tire profit d'une chose ou d'une situation, de façon malhonnête”.

What does profiteur mean in English?

noun

1
derogatorymasculineprofiteer
2
derogatorymasculinescrounger; freeloader; welfare parasite

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui profite sans vergogne.

noun: 1. Personne qui tire profit d'une chose ou d'une situation, de façon malhonnête. 2. Personne qui cherche à tirer profit d'un travail auquel elle ne participe pas ou peu ; personne qui abuse de la générosité ou des largesses d’autrui. 3. Agent économique profitant d’un bien ou d’un avantage collectifs sans en supporter les frais, laissés à la charge des autres usagers.

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 profiteur

profiteurs plural
profiteuse feminine
profiteuses plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce profiteur?

/pʁɔ.fi.tœʁ/
\pʁɔ.fi.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 profiteur

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is profiteur in French?

profiteur appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

profiteur0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Frenchmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).