acéré
French, adjective
acéré is spelled A-C-É-R-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acéré is a French adjective meaning “hardened with steel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, acère is a different word: “hornless”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit en parlant du fer lorsqu’on l’a garni d’acier, ce qui permet d’en rendre le tranchant plus affilé ou…”.
What does acéré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
hardened with steel
- 2
sharp, keen
adjective
- 1
rarehornless
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. Se dit en parlant du fer lorsqu’on l’a garni d’acier, ce qui permet d’en rendre le tranchant plus affilé ou la pointe plus aiguë. 2. Toute lame bien affilée, bien aiguisée. 3. Saillant, tranchant, dur, pointu, rodé et aigu à la fois, potentiellement redoutable.
adjective: 1. Sans cornes.
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 acéré
- acérée feminine
- acérés masculine plural
- acérées feminine plural
- acères plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to acéré
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acéré in French?
acéré appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).