boisé
French, noun
boisé is spelled B-O-I-S-É (5 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boisé is a French masculine noun meaning “wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of boiser. Without its accent, boise is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bois, forêt de faible superficie”.
What does boisé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wooded
noun
- 1
CanadaSwitzerlandmasculinewood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
verb
- 1
past participle of boiser
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. Couvert de bois, de forêts. 2. Constitué de bois, en tant que matériau. 3. Qualifie des fragrances ou arômes dont les notes évoquent le bois ; généralement le chêne, parfois le cèdre. 4. Coup boisé : coup involontaire frappé avec le cadre (autrefois en bois) de la raquette.
noun: 1. Bois, forêt de faible superficie.
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 boisé
- boisée feminine
- boisés masculine plural
- boisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to boisé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boisé in French?
boisé appears 2.0 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).