rentier
French, noun/ʁɑ̃.tje/
rentier is a French masculine noun meaning “rentier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui a des rentes constituées sur l’État ou sur des particuliers”.
What does rentier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerentier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui a des rentes constituées sur l’État ou sur des particuliers. 2. Bourgeois qui vit de son revenu, sans négoce ni industrie, ni fonction quelconque.
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 rentier
- rentiers plural
- rentière feminine
- rentières plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rentier?
- /ʁɑ̃.tje/
- \ʁɑ̃.tje\
- [ʁɑ̃.tje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rentier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rentier in French?
rentier 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).