jouter
French, verb/ʒu.te/
jouter is spelled J-O-U-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jouter is a French verb meaning “to joust (participate in jousting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Combattre, anciennement avec des lances, aujourd’hui avec de longues perches, sur l’eau”.
What does jouter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to joust (participate in jousting)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Combattre, anciennement avec des lances, aujourd’hui avec de longues perches, sur l’eau.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de jouter.
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 jouter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- joutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jouté participle past
- joute first-person indicative present
- joutes indicative present second-person
- joutons first-person indicative plural
- joutez indicative plural present
- joutent indicative plural present
- joutais first-person imperfect indicative
- joutait imperfect indicative singular
- joutions first-person imperfect indicative
- joutiez imperfect indicative plural
- joutaient imperfect indicative plural
- joutai first-person historic indicative
- joutas historic indicative past
- jouta historic indicative past
- joutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jouter?
- /ʒu.te/
- \ʒu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to jouter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jouter in French?
jouter appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).