pister
French, verb/pis.te/
pister is spelled P-I-S-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,186th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pister is a French verb meaning “to track (an animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Suivre les traces d’un animal”.
What does pister mean in English?
verb
- 1
to track (an animal)
- 2
to track (a person)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Suivre les traces d’un animal. 2. Suivre une personne en la surveillant discrètement. 3. Racoler. 4. Déposer sur un film la piste magnétique sur laquelle sera enregistré le son.
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 pister
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pistant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pisté participle past
- piste first-person indicative present
- pistes indicative present second-person
- pistons first-person indicative plural
- pistez indicative plural present
- pistent indicative plural present
- pistais first-person imperfect indicative
- pistait imperfect indicative singular
- pistions first-person imperfect indicative
- pistiez imperfect indicative plural
- pistaient imperfect indicative plural
- pistai first-person historic indicative
- pistas historic indicative past
- pista historic indicative past
- pistâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pister?
- /pis.te/
- \pis.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pister
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pister in French?
pister 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).