peut
French, verb/pø/
peut is spelled P-E-U-T (4 letters) and appears 1,549 times per million words in written French, the 72nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peut is a French verb meaning “third-person singular present indicative of pouvoir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does peut mean in English?
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative of pouvoir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Sale, mauvais, méchant.
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 peut
- peuts plural masculine
- peute singular feminine
- peutes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce peut?
- /pø/
- \pøt\
- \pø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is peut in French?
peut appears 1,549 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).