voluptueux
French, adjective/vɔ.lyp.tɥø/
voluptueux is spelled V-O-L-U-P-T-U-E-U-X (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voluptueux is a French adjective meaning “voluptuous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui aime et qui cherche la volupté”.
What does voluptueux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
voluptuous
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui aime et qui cherche la volupté. 2. Qui inspire la volupté, qui fait éprouver un sentiment de volupté. 3. Qui exprime la volupté.
noun: 1. Personne qui s’abandonne à la volupté.
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 voluptueux
- voluptueuse feminine
- voluptueuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voluptueux?
- /vɔ.lyp.tɥø/
- \vɔ.lyp.tɥø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to voluptueux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is voluptueux in French?
voluptueux appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).