cinglé
French, noun
cinglé is spelled C-I-N-G-L-É (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cinglé is a French masculine noun meaning “nutter, nutcase, madman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cingler. Without its accent, cingle is a different word: “meander”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne folle”.
What does cinglé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
slangnuts, bonkers, crazy
noun
- 1
masculineslangnutter, nutcase, madman
verb
- 1
past participle of cingler
noun
- 1
masculinemeander
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. Fou. 2. Enragé.
noun: 1. Personne folle.
noun: 1. Sinuosité, méandre.
noun: 1. Espèce de poisson, sorte d’apron, qui vit dans les eaux du Danube.
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 cinglé
- cingles plural
- cinglée feminine
- cinglés masculine plural
- cinglées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cinglé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cinglé in French?
cinglé appears 1.0 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).