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accidenté

French, adjective

accidenté is spelled A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T-É (9 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accidenté is a French adjective meaning “eventful (story)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, accidente is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui offre des accidents, irrégulier”.

What does accidenté mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    eventful (story)

  2. 2

    uneven (terrain)

  3. 3

    damaged or injured (in an accident).

verb

as accidente
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 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. Qui offre des accidents, irrégulier. 2. Qualifie une personne atteinte dans son intégrité tant morale que physique. 3. Se dit d’un objet ayant subi une dégradation à la suite d’un choc, d’un événement imprévu.

noun: 1. Personne victime d’un accident.

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 accidenté

  • accidentée feminine
  • accidentés masculine plural
  • accidentées feminine plural

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

English words that translate to accidenté

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

How common is accidenté in French?

accidenté 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).

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