lutter
French, verb/ly.te/
lutter is spelled L-U-T-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written French, the 2,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lutter is a French verb meaning “to struggle, to fight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Combattre, se prendre corps à corps avec quelqu’un pour le terrasser”.
What does lutter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to struggle, to fight
lutter contre la discrimination
- 2
to wrestle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Combattre, se prendre corps à corps avec quelqu’un pour le terrasser. 2. Participer à toute sorte de guerre, de dispute, de controverse, de conflit. 3. Se battre. 4. Faire effort pour surmonter l’adversité.
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 lutter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- luttant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lutté participle past
- lutte first-person indicative present
- luttes indicative present second-person
- luttons first-person indicative plural
- luttez indicative plural present
- luttent indicative plural present
- luttais first-person imperfect indicative
- luttait imperfect indicative singular
- luttions first-person imperfect indicative
- luttiez imperfect indicative plural
- luttaient imperfect indicative plural
- luttai first-person historic indicative
- luttas historic indicative past
- lutta historic indicative past
- luttâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lutter?
- /ly.te/
- \ly.te\
- [ly.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 lutter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lutter in French?
lutter appears 26 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).