caractérisé
French, adjective
caractérisé is spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-É (11 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caractérisé is a French adjective meaning “characterized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of caractériser. With an accent, caractérise is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est une personne ou une de ses actions présentant un ensemble de traits typiques et marqués”.
What does caractérisé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
characterized
verb
- 1
past participle of caractériser
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 est une personne ou une de ses actions présentant un ensemble de traits typiques et marqués. 2. Qui ne présente aucune ambiguïté. 3. Dont les symptômes sont évidents.
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 caractérisé
- caractérisée feminine
- caractérisés masculine plural
- caractérisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is caractérisé in French?
caractérisé appears 8.3 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).