acculé
French, adjective
acculé is spelled A-C-C-U-L-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acculé is a French adjective meaning “cornered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of acculer. Without its accent, accule is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’un humain ou d’un animal : poussé contre un obstacle sans issue ou fuite possibles”.
What does acculé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cornered
- 2
forced
acculé à faire
- 3
of a quadruped (especially a horse): represented rearing up as if ready to gallop
verb
- 1
past participle of acculer
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. D’un humain ou d’un animal : poussé contre un obstacle sans issue ou fuite possibles. 2. D’un humain : confronté à une difficulté sans échappatoire. 3. D’un humain : être obligé (à quelque chose). 4. Se dit d'un quadrupède (et en particulier du cheval) lorsqu’il est représenté cabré comme près à partir au galop. À rapprocher de cabré, effaré, effarouché, effrayé, forcené et furieux.
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 acculé
- acculée feminine
- acculés masculine plural
- acculées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is acculé in French?
acculé appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).