blessé
French, noun
blessé is spelled B-L-E-S-S-É (6 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written French, the 2,120th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blessé is a French masculine noun meaning “injured (person), wounded (person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of blesser. Without its accent, blesse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui a subi une ou des blessures”.
What does blessé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
injured, wounded
noun
- 1
masculineinjured (person), wounded (person)
verb
- 1
past participle of blesser
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 subi une ou des blessures. 2. Qui est atteint dans son honneur, dans son orgueil.
noun: 1. Personne qui a subi une ou des blessures. 2. Combattant ayant subi une ou des blessures et qui, s’il dépose les armes à l'approche de forces ennemies, n'est plus considéré comme une cible légitime et bénéficie d'une protection identique à celle des civils, prisonniers de guerre et autres incapacités.
noun: 1. Maladie caribéenne aux manifestations complexes, liée aux traumatismes de l'esclavage.
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 blessé
- blessée feminine
- blessés masculine plural
- blessées feminine plural
- blessæ neuter
- blès
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to blessé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blessé in French?
blessé appears 39 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).