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conforme

French, adjective

conforme is spelled C-O-N-F-O-R-M-E (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conforme is a French adjective meaning “consistent with, in keeping with (construed with à)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of conformer. With an accent, conformé is a different word: “past participle of conformer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a la même forme ; qui est semblable”.

What does conforme mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    consistent with, in keeping with (construed with à)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as conformé
  1. 1

    past participle of conformer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. S’emploie en parlant de la manière dont les parties d’une chose sont disposées entre elles. 2. On le dit plus spécialement des corps organisés.

adjective: 1. Qui a la même forme ; qui est semblable. 2. Convenable, qui s’accorde. 3. Qui correspond à un standard, à une norme.

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 conforme

  • conformes plural
  • conformée feminine
  • conformés masculine plural
  • conformées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to conforme

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is conforme in French?

conforme appears 13 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).

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