vanneur
French, noun/va.nœʁ/
vanneur is spelled V-A-N-N-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written French, the 192,066th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vanneur is a French masculine noun meaning “winnower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui vanne, qui nettoie les grains”.
What does vanneur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewinnower
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui vanne, qui nettoie les grains. 2. Celui qui se moque de quelqu’un.
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 vanneur
- vanneurs plural
- vanneuse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vanneur?
- /va.nœʁ/
- \va.nœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vanneur in French?
vanneur appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).