quête
French, noun
quête is spelled Q-U-Ê-T-E (5 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,136th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quête is a French feminine noun meaning “quest, search” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, quêté is a different word: “past participle of quêter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action par laquelle on cherche”.
What does quête mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequest, search
verb
- 1
past participle of quêter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action par laquelle on cherche. 2. Action de demander et de recueillir des aumônes pour les pauvres ou pour une œuvre de charité. 3. Action d’un valet de limier qui va détourner une bête pour la lancer. 4. Action du chien qui démêle la voie d’un gibier qu’on veut détourner.
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 quête
- quêtes plural
- quêtée feminine
- quêtés masculine plural
- quêtées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quête
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quête in French?
quête appears 18 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).