louper
French, verb\lu.pe\
louper is spelled L-O-U-P-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Louper is a French verb meaning “to miss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rater”.
What does louper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to miss
- 2
to fail
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rater. 2. Flâner ; paresser ; mal exécuter un travail.
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 louper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- loupant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- loupé participle past
- loupe first-person indicative present
- loupes indicative present second-person
- loupons first-person indicative plural
- loupez indicative plural present
- loupent indicative plural present
- loupais first-person imperfect indicative
- loupait imperfect indicative singular
- loupions first-person imperfect indicative
- loupiez imperfect indicative plural
- loupaient imperfect indicative plural
- loupai first-person historic indicative
- loupas historic indicative past
- loupa historic indicative past
- loupâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce louper?
- \lu.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to louper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is louper in French?
louper appears 2.7 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).