débordé
French, adjective
débordé is spelled D-É-B-O-R-D-É (7 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Débordé is a French adjective meaning “overworked, snowed under” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of déborder. With an accent, déborde is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est sorti de son lit”.
What does débordé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
overworked, snowed under
Near-synonym: surmené
verb
- 1
past participle of déborder
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 est sorti de son lit. 2. Dont les bords ont été enlevés. 3. Surchargé de travail.
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 débordé
- débordée feminine
- débordés masculine plural
- débordées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to débordé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is débordé in French?
débordé appears 3.0 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).