pieuvre
French, noun/pjœvʁ/
pieuvre is spelled P-I-E-U-V-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,423rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pieuvre is a French feminine noun meaning “octopus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Céphalopode que l’on appelle aussi poulpe”.
What does pieuvre mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineoctopus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Céphalopode que l’on appelle aussi poulpe. 2. Chair de cet animal. 3. Mafia. 4. Câble informatique se séparant en plusieurs extrémités.
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 pieuvre
- pieuvres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pieuvre?
- /pjœvʁ/
- \pjœvʁ\
- \ˈpjœ.vʁə\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pieuvre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pieuvre in French?
pieuvre appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).