voûter
French, verb
voûter is spelled V-O-Û-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voûter is a French verb meaning “to vault a ceiling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, vouter is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of voûter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir d’une voûte le haut d’un édifice ou d’une pièce dans un édifice”.
What does voûter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vault a ceiling
- 2
to cause to stoop
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of voûter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir d’une voûte le haut d’un édifice ou d’une pièce dans un édifice.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de voûter.
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 voûter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- voûtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- voûté participle past
- voûte first-person indicative present
- voûtes indicative present second-person
- voûtons first-person indicative plural
- voûtez indicative plural present
- voûtent indicative plural present
- voûtais first-person imperfect indicative
- voûtait imperfect indicative singular
- voûtions first-person imperfect indicative
- voûtiez imperfect indicative plural
- voûtaient imperfect indicative plural
- voûtai first-person historic indicative
- voûtas historic indicative past
- voûta historic indicative past
- voûtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is voûter in French?
voûter appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).