remorqueur
French, noun/ʁə.mɔʁ.kœʁ/
remorqueur is spelled R-E-M-O-R-Q-U-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Remorqueur is a French masculine noun meaning “tugboat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bâtiment qui remorque, surtout en parlant des bateaux qui servent habituellement à cet usage”.
What does remorqueur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetugboat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui remorque.
noun: 1. Bâtiment qui remorque, surtout en parlant des bateaux qui servent habituellement à cet usage.
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 remorqueur
- remorqueurs plural
- remorqueuse singular feminine
- remorqueuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce remorqueur?
- /ʁə.mɔʁ.kœʁ/
- \ʁə.mɔʁ.kœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to remorqueur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is remorqueur in French?
remorqueur appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).