contaminé
French, verb
contaminé is spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-É (9 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 17,903rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contaminé is a French verb meaning “past participle of contaminer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, contamine is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does contaminé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of contaminer
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. Qui peut communiquer une maladie contagieuse. 2. Où règne une maladie contagieuse 3. Qui est souillé de contaminants.
noun: 1. Personne qui a été contaminée. 2. Joueur rouge qui peut contaminer les autres joueurs.
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 contaminé
- contaminée feminine
- contaminés masculine plural
- contaminées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is contaminé in French?
contaminé appears 2.5 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).