abrégé
French, noun
abrégé is spelled A-B-R-É-G-É (6 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abrégé is a French masculine noun meaning “a summarized synopsis or précis of a longer work” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of abréger. With an accent, abrège is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrit ou discours dans lequel on rend d’une manière succincte ce qui est ou ce qui pourrait être plus…”.
What does abrégé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea summarized synopsis or précis of a longer work
- 2
masculinea small book or written work summarizing the major points of a general topic
adjective
- 1
abridged
verb
- 1
past participle of abréger
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Écrit ou discours dans lequel on rend d’une manière succincte ce qui est ou ce qui pourrait être plus développé. 2. Points essentiels d’une proposition, d’une réclamation, etc. 3. Abrégé pneumatique : Système de clavier à commande pneumatique à dépression destiné aux orgues et imaginé par le facteur d’orgue Prosper-Antoine Moitessier de Montpellier.
adjective: 1. Qui est abrégé.
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 abrégé
- abrégés plural
- abrégée feminine
- abrégées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abrégé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abrégé in French?
abrégé appears 2.6 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).