chuter
French, verb/ʃy.te/
chuter is spelled C-H-U-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 16,088th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chuter is a French verb meaning “to fall, to drop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tomber sous l’action de son propre poids ; choir”.
What does chuter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fall, to drop
- 2
to drop, to decrease (of numbers)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomber sous l’action de son propre poids ; choir. 2. Faire un flop, un four, ne pas réussir. 3. Rater son contrat en n’effectuant pas le nombre de levées prévues. 4. Baisser fortement.
verb: 1. Inviter un acteur, un chanteur à se taire, en criant « chut ! ».
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 chuter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chuté participle past
- chute first-person indicative present
- chutes indicative present second-person
- chutons first-person indicative plural
- chutez indicative plural present
- chutent indicative plural present
- chutais first-person imperfect indicative
- chutait imperfect indicative singular
- chutions first-person imperfect indicative
- chutiez imperfect indicative plural
- chutaient imperfect indicative plural
- chutai first-person historic indicative
- chutas historic indicative past
- chuta historic indicative past
- chutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chuter?
- /ʃy.te/
- \ʃy.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chuter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chuter in French?
chuter appears 3.0 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).