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cacheté

French, adjective

cacheté is spelled C-A-C-H-E-T-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cacheté is a French adjective meaning “sealed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cacheter. Without its accent, cachete is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui porte un cachet”.

What does cacheté mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    sealed

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of cacheter

verb

as cachete
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 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 porte un cachet. 2. Qui est hermétiquement clos à la cire à cacheter, en parlant de flacons.

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 cacheté

  • cachetée feminine
  • cachetés masculine plural
  • cachetées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is cacheté in French?

cacheté appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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