hue
French, interjection
hue is spelled H-U-E (3 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hue is a French interjection meaning “yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of huer. With an accent, hué is a different word: “past participle of huer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mot dont se servent les charretiers pour faire avancer les chevaux, ou pour les faire tourner à droite”.
What does hue mean in English?
interjection
- 1
yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of huer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. Mot dont se servent les charretiers pour faire avancer les chevaux, ou pour les faire tourner à droite. 2. Mot dont se servent les enfants pour faire avancer leur jouet représentant un cheval.
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 hue
- hue ! canonical
- huée feminine
- hués masculine plural
- huées feminine plural
- ^((h aspiré))\y\ invariable
- hu
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hue in French?
hue appears 1.8 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).