prévôt
French, noun/pʁe.vo/
prévôt is spelled P-R-É-V-Ô-T (6 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prévôt is a French masculine noun meaning “provost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Officier ou magistrat chargé d’une juridiction ou préposé à une haute surveillance”.
What does prévôt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprovost
- 2
masculineprovost marshal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Officier ou magistrat chargé d’une juridiction ou préposé à une haute surveillance. 2. Commandant de la gendarmerie du quartier général d’un corps d’armée. 3. En escrime, assistant du maître d'armes. 4. Sous-maître de gymnastique, d'escrime, de culture physique, de danse et de boxe.
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 prévôt
- prévôts plural
- prévôte feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prévôt?
- /pʁe.vo/
- \pʁe.vo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prévôt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prévôt in French?
prévôt appears 1.4 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).