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tailleur

French, noun/ta.jœʁ/

tailleur is spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written French, the 13,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tailleur is a French masculine noun meaning “tailor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui taille”.

What does tailleur mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetailor

  2. 2

    masculinesuit

  3. 3

    masculineclipping of tailleur de pierre (“stonemason”)

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Celui qui taille. 2. Celui qui taille des habits, qui fait des vêtements. 3. Costume féminin ajusté et composé d’une jaquette et d’une jupe de même étoffe.

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 tailleur

  • tailleurs plural
  • tailleuse feminine

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

How do you pronounce tailleur?

  • /ta.jœʁ/
  • /tɑ.jœʁ/
  • \tɑ.jœʁ\

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

English words that translate to tailleur

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tailleur in French?

tailleur appears 3.8 times per 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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