quêter
French, verb/kɛ.te/
quêter is spelled Q-U-Ê-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quêter is a French verb meaning “to search for; to look for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Demander et recueillir des aumônes”.
What does quêter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to search for; to look for
- 2
to beg (for money)
- 3
to collect (money)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Demander et recueillir des aumônes. 2. Chercher du gibier en parlant d’un chien. 3. Rechercher.
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 quêter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- quêtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- quêté participle past
- quête first-person indicative present
- quêtes indicative present second-person
- quêtons first-person indicative plural
- quêtez indicative plural present
- quêtent indicative plural present
- quêtais first-person imperfect indicative
- quêtait imperfect indicative singular
- quêtions first-person imperfect indicative
- quêtiez imperfect indicative plural
- quêtaient imperfect indicative plural
- quêtai first-person historic indicative
- quêtas historic indicative past
- quêta historic indicative past
- quêtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quêter?
- /kɛ.te/
- /ke.te/
- \ke.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quêter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quêter in French?
quêter appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).