quêteux
French, noun/kɛ.tø/
quêteux is spelled Q-U-Ê-T-E-U-X (7 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 149,203rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quêteux is a French masculine noun meaning “beggar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Autrefois, personne défavorisée qui errait sur les chemins en demandant la charité dans diverses maisons sur…”.
What does quêteux mean in English?
noun
- 1
Quebecmasculinebeggar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Autrefois, personne défavorisée qui errait sur les chemins en demandant la charité dans diverses maisons sur son passage. 2. Personne mal nantie qui quête pour survivre. 3. Personne qui demande quelque chose.
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 quêteux
- quêteuse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quêteux?
- /kɛ.tø/
- /ke.tø/
- \kɛ.tø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quêteux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quêteux in French?
quêteux appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).