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feutre

French, noun

feutre is spelled F-E-U-T-R-E (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feutre is a French masculine noun meaning “material made of matted fibres; felt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, feutré is a different word: “felt-like (having a texture like felt)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étoffe non tissée constituée de poils ou de fibres de laine agglomérées ensemble par soufflage, et mise sous…”.

What does feutre mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinematerial made of matted fibres; felt

  2. 2

    masculinefelt hat; trilby (UK), fedora (US)

  3. 3

    masculinefelt-tip (pen)

  4. 4

    masculinea couching fabric

  5. 5

    masculinesaddle padding for the comfort of horse and rider

adjective

as feutré
  1. 1

    felt-like (having a texture like felt)

  2. 2

    muted, muffled

verb

as feutré
  1. 1

    past participle of feutrer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Étoffe non tissée constituée de poils ou de fibres de laine agglomérées ensemble par soufflage, et mise sous pression avec ébouillantage dans la forme, ou, en fabrication traditionnelle mongole par mouillage et foulage. 2. Crayon dont la mine est faite en feutre ou en synthétique. 3. Chapeau de feutre. 4. Bourre dont se servent les selliers pour rembourrer une selle.

adjective: 1. Garni de feutre. 2. Qui ressemble au feutre. 3. Discret. 4. Souple, doux, assourdi.

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 feutre

  • feutres plural
  • flotre alternative
  • flôtre alternative
  • fautre alternative
  • feutrée feminine
  • feutrés masculine plural
  • feutrées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to feutre

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is feutre in French?

feutre appears 1.5 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).

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