cadenassé
French, adjective
cadenassé is spelled C-A-D-E-N-A-S-S-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cadenassé is a French adjective meaning “locked up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cadenasser. Without its accent, cadenasse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fermé ou attaché avec un cadenas”.
What does cadenassé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
locked up
verb
- 1
past participle of cadenasser
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. Fermé ou attaché avec un cadenas.
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 cadenassé
- cadenassée feminine
- cadenassés masculine plural
- cadenassées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cadenassé in French?
cadenassé appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).