pieux
French, adjective/pjø/
pieux is spelled P-I-E-U-X (5 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written French, the 13,132nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pieux is a French adjective meaning “pious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of pieu. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a de la piété ; qui est attaché aux croyances, aux devoirs et aux pratiques de la religion”.
What does pieux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pious
noun
- 1
masculineplural of pieu
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a de la piété ; qui est attaché aux croyances, aux devoirs et aux pratiques de la religion. 2. Qui sert aux exercices de piété. 3. Qui part d’un esprit touché des sentiments de la religion. 4. Peu éclairé.
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 pieux
- pieuse feminine
- pieuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pieux?
- /pjø/
- \pjø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pieux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pieux in French?
pieux appears 4.0 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).