époux
French, noun/e.pu/
époux is spelled É-P-O-U-X (5 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,746th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Époux is a French masculine noun meaning “spouse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mari, dans le mariage”.
What does époux mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespouse
- 2
masculinemale spouse, husband
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mari, dans le mariage. 2. (Souvent au pluriel) Mari ou femme.
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 époux
- épouse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce époux?
- /e.pu/
- \e.pu\
- [e.pu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to époux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is époux in French?
époux appears 15 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).