yéti
French, noun/je.ti/
yéti is spelled Y-É-T-I (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,936th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yéti is a French masculine noun meaning “yeti” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Animal mythologique censé vivre dans les montagnes du Tibet, conformé comme un primate velu au poil blanc…”.
What does yéti mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyeti
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Animal mythologique censé vivre dans les montagnes du Tibet, conformé comme un primate velu au poil blanc, avec un visage ressemblant à celui de l’homme.
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 yéti
- yétis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yéti?
- /je.ti/
- \je.ti\
- [je.ti]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to yéti
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is yéti in French?
yéti appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).