accoutré
French, adjective
accoutré is spelled A-C-C-O-U-T-R-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accoutré is a French adjective meaning “attired, dressed (in a particular manner)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of accoutrer. Without its accent, accoutre is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vêtu d’une façon ridicule”.
What does accoutré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
attired, dressed (in a particular manner)
verb
- 1
past participle of accoutrer
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. Vêtu d’une façon ridicule. 2. Vêtu d’une façon misérable. 3. Fort maltraité, dont on a dit beaucoup de mal.
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 accoutré
- accoutrée feminine
- accoutrés masculine plural
- accoutrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is accoutré in French?
accoutré appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).