fétu
French, noun/fe.ty/
fétu is spelled F-É-T-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fétu is a French masculine noun meaning “straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brin de paille”.
What does fétu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestraw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
- 2
masculinestraw (something proverbially worthless)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Brin de paille. 2. Symbole de quelque chose sans valeur, triviale.
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 fétu
- fétus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fétu?
- /fe.ty/
- \fe.ty\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fétu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fétu in French?
fétu appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).