puer
French, verb/pɥe/
puer is spelled P-U-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puer is a French verb meaning “to stink, to smell (bad)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sentir mauvais”.
What does puer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stink, to smell (bad)
- 2
to stink of
Cet homme pue l’ail.
- 3
to be awful; to be repulsive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sentir mauvais. 2. Avoir l’odeur de quelque chose de façon excessive ou incommode. 3. Dénoter la présence d’un élément négatif. 4. Uniquement à la forme négative. Aimer.
noun: 1. Genre d’insecte névroptère appartenant à la famille des Ascalaphidae.
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 puer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- puant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pué participle past
- pue first-person indicative present
- pues indicative present second-person
- puons first-person indicative plural
- puez indicative plural present
- puent indicative plural present
- puais first-person imperfect indicative
- puait imperfect indicative singular
- puions first-person imperfect indicative
- puiez imperfect indicative plural
- puaient imperfect indicative plural
- puai first-person historic indicative
- puas historic indicative past
- pua historic indicative past
- puâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce puer?
- /pɥe/
- /py.e/
- \pɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to puer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is puer in French?
puer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).