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risqueur

French, noun/ʁis.kœʁ/

risqueur is spelled R-I-S-Q-U-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Risqueur is a French masculine noun meaning “risktaker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui risque”.

What does risqueur mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    risktaking

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerisktaker

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui prend un risque.

noun: 1. Personne qui risque.

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 risqueur

  • risqueuse feminine
  • risqueurs masculine plural
  • risqueuses feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce risqueur?

  • /ʁis.kœʁ/
  • \ʁis.kœʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is risqueur in French?

risqueur appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.

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

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