râleur
French, noun/ʁa.lœʁ/
râleur is spelled R-Â-L-E-U-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Râleur is a French masculine noun meaning “moaner, whinger, whiner, kvetch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personnage qui aime à protester de façon hargneuse”.
What does râleur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
moaning, groaning
noun
- 1
masculinemoaner, whinger, whiner, kvetch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est porté à protester de façon hargneuse.
noun: 1. Personnage qui aime à protester de façon hargneuse.
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 râleur
- râleuse feminine
- râleurs masculine plural
- râleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce râleur?
- /ʁa.lœʁ/
- /ʁɑ.lœʁ/
- \ʁɑ.lœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to râleur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is râleur in French?
râleur appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).