pistou
French, noun/pis.tu/
pistou is spelled P-I-S-T-O-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pistou is a French masculine noun meaning “pistou (cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mélange de basilic et d’huile d’olive avec parfois aussi de l’ail et du parmesan”.
What does pistou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepistou (cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil)
soupe au pistou
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mélange de basilic et d’huile d’olive avec parfois aussi de l’ail et du parmesan. 2. Soupe au basilic.
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 pistou
- pistous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pistou?
- /pis.tu/
- \pis.tu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pistou in French?
pistou appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).