racleur
French, noun/ʁa.klœʁ/
racleur is spelled R-A-C-L-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Racleur is a French masculine noun meaning “scraper (tool)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mauvais joueur de violon”.
What does racleur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescraper (tool)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mauvais joueur de violon. 2. Celui qui fait du raclage. 3. Appareil qui sert à racler. 4. Bouchon de mousse que l’on insère dans une tuyauterie et que l’on pousse à l’aide d’un fluide, afin de la nettoyer sans eau.
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 racleur
- racleurs plural
- racleuse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce racleur?
- /ʁa.klœʁ/
- \ʁa.klœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is racleur in French?
racleur appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).