zut
French, interjection/zyt/
zut is spelled Z-U-T (3 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zut is a French interjection meaning “damn, shoot, dang, cripes, rats, "dash it!", "hang it all!"” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exclamation qui exprime l’impatience, le dépit”.
What does zut mean in English?
interjection
- 1
damn, shoot, dang, cripes, rats, "dash it!", "hang it all!"
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. Exclamation qui exprime l’impatience, le dépit. 2. Non, exprime le refus. 3. Fi, exprime le mépris.
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 zut
- z'ut alternative obsolete
- zuth alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zut?
- /zyt/
- \zyt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zut
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zut in French?
zut appears 3.2 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).