consommé
French, noun
consommé is spelled C-O-N-S-O-M-M-É (8 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Consommé is a French masculine noun meaning “consommé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of consommer. Without its accent, consomme is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bouillon de viande (bœuf, volaille, gibier, poisson) réduit et parfois lié au jaune d’œuf ; les consommés se…”.
What does consommé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconsommé
adjective
- 1
consummate (complete in every detail, perfect)
- 2
consummate (highly skilled and experienced)
verb
- 1
past participle of consommer
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. Bouillon de viande (bœuf, volaille, gibier, poisson) réduit et parfois lié au jaune d’œuf ; les consommés se servent froid ou chaud.
adjective: 1. Presque parfait. 2. Très expérimenté dans un art, dans une science.
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 consommé
- consommés plural
- consommée feminine
- consommées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to consommé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is consommé in French?
consommé appears 5.4 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).