usurpateur
French, noun/y.zyʁ.pa.tœʁ/
usurpateur is spelled U-S-U-R-P-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Usurpateur is a French masculine noun meaning “usurper (one who usurps)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui, par violence ou par ruse, s’empare d’un bien, d’une souveraineté, d’un pouvoir, d’une dignité…”.
What does usurpateur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
usurping
noun
- 1
masculineusurper (one who usurps)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui, par violence ou par ruse, s’empare d’un bien, d’une souveraineté, d’un pouvoir, d’une dignité, d’un titre, etc., qui ne lui appartient pas.
adjective: 1. Qui usurpe.
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 usurpateur
- usurpatrice feminine
- usurpateurs masculine plural
- usurpatrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce usurpateur?
- /y.zyʁ.pa.tœʁ/
- \y.zyʁ.pa.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to usurpateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is usurpateur in French?
usurpateur appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).