Skip to main content

précaution

French, noun/pʁe.ko.sjɔ̃/

précaution is spelled P-R-É-C-A-U-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Précaution is a French feminine noun meaning “precaution” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qu’on fait par prévoyance, pour ne pas tomber en quelque inconvénient, pour éviter quelque mal”.

What does précaution mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineprecaution

    deux précautions valent mieux qu'une

  2. 2

    feminineprudence, wariness

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ce qu’on fait par prévoyance, pour ne pas tomber en quelque inconvénient, pour éviter quelque mal. 2. Circonspection ; ménagement ; prudence.

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 précaution

  • précautions plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce précaution?

  • /pʁe.ko.sjɔ̃/
  • \pʁe.ko.sjɔ̃\
  • [yn pʁe.ko.sjɔ̃]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to précaution

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is précaution in French?

précaution appears 7.6 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).

What to look up after précaution