cloué
French, verb
cloué is spelled C-L-O-U-É (5 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cloué is a French verb meaning “past participle of clouer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, cloue is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does cloué mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of clouer
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. Fixé à l’aide de clous. 2. Immobile, muet.
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 cloué
- clouée feminine
- cloués masculine plural
- clouées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cloué in French?
cloué appears 1.2 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).