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pieu

French, noun/pjø/

pieu is a French masculine noun meaning “post, stake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce de bois qui est pointue par un des bouts et qu’on emploie à divers usages”.

What does pieu mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepost, stake

  2. 2

    masculineslangbed, sack

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pièce de bois qui est pointue par un des bouts et qu’on emploie à divers usages. 2. Pénis.

noun: 1. Lit.

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 pieu

  • pieux plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pieu?

  • /pjø/
  • \pjø\
  • [pjø]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to pieu

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pieu in French?

pieu appears 1.3 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).