breveté
French, adjective
breveté is spelled B-R-E-V-E-T-É (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Breveté is a French adjective meaning “patented” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of breveter. With an accent, brevète is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a un brevet, en parlant de son titulaire ou de la chose soumise à brevet”.
What does breveté mean in English?
adjective
- 1
patented
- 2
qualified
verb
- 1
past participle of breveter
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 un brevet, en parlant de son titulaire ou de la chose soumise à brevet.
noun: 1. Personne qui a obtenu un brevet. 2. Personne qui a déposé un brevet.
noun: 1. Variante de brièveté.
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 breveté
- brevetée feminine
- brevetés masculine plural
- brevetées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is breveté in French?
breveté appears 1.3 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).