voyageur
French, noun/vwa.ja.ʒœʁ/
voyageur is spelled V-O-Y-A-G-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written French, the 8,354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voyageur is a French masculine noun meaning “traveller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui voyage”.
What does voyageur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetraveller
un train de voyageurs
adjective
- 1
nomadic, wandering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui voyage. 2. Migrateur.
noun: 1. Celui qui voyage. 2. Représentant de commerce. 3. Celui qui a fait ou qui fait de grands voyages. 4. Celui qui fait partie des gens du voyage.
noun: 1. Gens du voyage.
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 voyageur
- voyageurs plural
- voyageuse feminine
- voyageuses feminine plural
- Voyageurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voyageur?
- /vwa.ja.ʒœʁ/
- \vwa.ja.ʒœʁ\
- [vwa.ja.ʒœʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to voyageur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is voyageur in French?
voyageur appears 7.4 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).