décédé
French, verb
décédé is spelled D-É-C-É-D-É (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décédé is a French verb meaning “past participle of décéder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, décède is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does décédé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of décéder
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. Mort. Qui a cessé de vivre.
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 décédé
- décédée feminine
- décédés masculine plural
- décédées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to décédé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décédé in French?
décédé appears 19 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).