Heat

"Heat" in French

artillerie

(slang: one or more firearms)

chaleur

(thermal energy)

chaleur

(condition or quality of being hot)

chaleur

(condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)

chaleur

(hot spell)

chauffe

(one cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further)

excitation

(period of intensity, particularly of emotion)

flicaille

(slang: the police)

piquant

(attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth)

rut

(condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)

warm up

(preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race)

chauffer

(to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space)

exciter

(to arouse, to excite (sexually))

réchauffer

(to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space)

échauffer

(to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.