autorisé
French, adjective
autorisé is spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-S-É (8 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written French, the 3,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Autorisé is a French adjective meaning “permitted, allowed, authorized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of autoriser. Without its accent, autorise is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a de l’autorité”.
What does autorisé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
permitted, allowed, authorized
- 2
authoritative, qualified, accredited, legitimate, recognized, reliable
Near-synonyms: accrédité, fondé, légitime, officiel, patenté, reconnu
verb
- 1
past participle of autoriser
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. Qui a de l’autorité. 2. Qui s’appuie sur une autorité reconnue, accrédité, patenté, fondé, reconnu.
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 autorisé
- autorisée feminine
- autorisés masculine plural
- autorisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to autorisé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is autorisé in French?
autorisé appears 20 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).