poème
French, noun/pɔ.ɛm/
poème is spelled P-O-È-M-E (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poème is a French masculine noun meaning “poem (literary piece written in verse)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrage de littérature en vers”.
What does poème mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepoem (literary piece written in verse)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ouvrage de littérature en vers. 2. Ouvrage analogue par la pensée, par le style, mais écrits en prose. 3. Quelque chose de remarquable.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de poème.
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 poème
- poèmes plural
- poëme obsolete
- poéme archaic
- poeme archaic
- pöeme archaic rare
- pœme archaic rare
- poëmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce poème?
- /pɔ.ɛm/
- /pwam/
- \pɔ.ɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to poème
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is poème in French?
poème appears 14 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).