peupler
French, verb/pœ.ple/
peupler is spelled P-E-U-P-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peupler is a French verb meaning “to populate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Établir une multitude d’habitants en quelque pays, en quelque endroit”.
What does peupler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to populate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Établir une multitude d’habitants en quelque pays, en quelque endroit. 2. Il se dit aussi en parlant des Animaux. 3. Il se dit aussi en parlant des plantations. 4. Remplir un lieu d’habitants en y faisant souche.
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 peupler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- peuplant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- peuplé participle past
- peuple first-person indicative present
- peuples indicative present second-person
- peuplons first-person indicative plural
- peuplez indicative plural present
- peuplent indicative plural present
- peuplais first-person imperfect indicative
- peuplait imperfect indicative singular
- peuplions first-person imperfect indicative
- peupliez imperfect indicative plural
- peuplaient imperfect indicative plural
- peuplai first-person historic indicative
- peuplas historic indicative past
- peupla historic indicative past
- peuplâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce peupler?
- /pœ.ple/
- \pœ.ple\
- [pœ.ple]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to peupler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is peupler in French?
peupler appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).