goutte
French, noun
goutte is spelled G-O-U-T-T-E (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Goutte is a French feminine noun meaning “drop, droplet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, goutté is a different word: “past participle of goutter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Très petite quantité d’un liquide qui se détache avec une forme sphérique”.
What does goutte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedrop, droplet
comme deux gouttes d'eau
- 2
femininegoutte
- 3
femininegout
goutte saturnine
- 4
femininerivulet; brook
- 5
feminineslangeau de vie
adverb
- 1
obsoletenot, not at all, not a drop
Il ne parloit goutte.
verb
- 1
past participle of goutter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Très petite quantité d’un liquide qui se détache avec une forme sphérique. 2. Très petite quantité d’un liquide. 3. Eau-de-vie. 4. Quantité insignifiante.
adverb: 1. Pas ; rien.
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 goutte
- gouttes plural
- gouttée feminine
- gouttés masculine plural
- gouttées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to goutte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is goutte in French?
goutte appears 11 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).