zou
French, interjection/zu/
zou is spelled Z-O-U (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zou is a French interjection meaning “shoo, let's go!” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “En avant, hors d’ici”.
What does zou mean in English?
interjection
- 1
colloquialshoo, let's go!
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. En avant, hors d’ici.
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.
How do you pronounce zou?
- /zu/
- \zu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zou in French?
zou appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).