pépie
French, noun
pépie is spelled P-É-P-I-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pépie is a French masculine noun meaning “pip (disease of birds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pépier. With an accent, pépié is a different word: “past participle of pépier”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite peau blanche qui vient quelquefois au bout de la langue des oiseaux, particulièrement des poules, et…”.
What does pépie mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepip (disease of birds)
- 2
masculineExcessive thirst
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of pépier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite peau blanche qui vient quelquefois au bout de la langue des oiseaux, particulièrement des poules, et qui les empêche de boire et de pousser leur cri ordinaire. 2. Grande soif.
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 pépie
- pépies plural
- pépiée feminine
- pépiés masculine plural
- pépiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pépie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pépie in French?
pépie appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).