veuf
French, noun/vœf/
veuf is spelled V-E-U-F (4 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Veuf is a French masculine noun meaning “widower (a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Homme dont l’épouse ou l’époux est décédé(e)”.
What does veuf mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewidower (a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried)
adjective
- 1
widowed
- 2
odd (missing its pair)
une chaussette veuve
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est privé de. 2. Dont le conjoint est mort et qui ne s’est pas remarié.
noun: 1. Homme dont l’épouse ou l’époux est décédé(e).
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 veuf
- veufs plural
- veuve feminine
- veuves feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce veuf?
- /vœf/
- \vœf\
- [vœf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to veuf
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is veuf in French?
veuf appears 1.8 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).