communiqué
French, noun
communiqué is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-Q-U-É (10 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Communiqué is a French masculine noun meaning “communiqué, statement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of communiquer. Without its accent, communique is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Message à la presse”.
What does communiqué mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecommuniqué, statement
verb
- 1
past participle of communiquer
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
noun: 1. Message à la presse. 2. Communication officielle faite à la presse par les pouvoirs publics. 3. Communications officielles par lesquelles l’état-major rend compte quotidiennement des opérations en temps de guerre.
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 communiqué
- communiqués plural
- communiquée feminine
- communiquées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to communiqué
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is communiqué in French?
communiqué appears 22 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).