accablé
French, adjective
accablé is spelled A-C-C-A-B-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accablé is a French adjective meaning “stricken” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of accabler. Without its accent, accable is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cédant, succombant sous le poids”.
What does accablé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
stricken
- 2
afflicted
verb
- 1
past participle of accabler
"Être accablé d'affaires, to be imbarassed (or pestered) with business."
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
adjective: 1. Cédant, succombant sous le poids. 2. Écrasé sous une charge pénible, physique ou morale.
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 accablé
- accablée feminine
- accablés masculine plural
- accablées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to accablé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accablé in French?
accablé 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).