saigneur
French, noun/sɛ.ɲœʁ/
saigneur is spelled S-A-I-G-N-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 122,418th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saigneur is a French masculine noun meaning “bloodletter, bleeder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Médecin qui ordonne des saignées”.
What does saigneur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebloodletter, bleeder
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Médecin qui ordonne des saignées. 2. Celui qui saigne les porcs. 3. Ouvrier qui récolte le latex en pratiquant une saignée dans les arbres. 4. Celui qui joue beaucoup à un jeu vidéo (du verbe saigner) référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème).
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 saigneur
- saigneurs plural
- saigneuse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saigneur?
- /sɛ.ɲœʁ/
- /se.ɲœʁ/
- \sɛ.ɲœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saigneur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saigneur in French?
saigneur appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).