allongé
French, verb
allongé is spelled A-L-L-O-N-G-É (7 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written French, the 10,846th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Allongé is a French verb meaning “past participle of allonger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, allonge is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does allongé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of allonger
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. Ce qui est long, par opposition aux choses de même espèce qui ont une forme plus ramassée. 2. En position horizontale.
noun: 1. Personne malade restant en position couchée. 2. Personne atteinte de la tuberculose.
noun: 1. Café allongé.
noun: 1. Ce qu’on ajoute à un vêtement, à un meuble pour l’allonger. 2. Pièce de bois d'une membrure d’un bateau, la prolongeant à sa partie supérieure. 3. Longueur de bras ou de jambe d’un martialiste en particulier d’un boxeur. 4. Variante de rallonge.
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 allongé
- allongée feminine
- allongés masculine plural
- allongées feminine plural
- allonges plural
- alonge
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to allongé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is allongé in French?
allongé appears 5.2 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).