desséché
French, adjective
desséché is spelled D-E-S-S-É-C-H-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desséché is a French adjective meaning “dried out, desiccated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of dessécher. With an accent, dessèche is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est devenu ou rendu sec”.
What does desséché mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dried out, desiccated
verb
- 1
past participle of dessécher
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 devenu ou rendu sec.
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 desséché
- desséchée feminine
- desséchés masculine plural
- desséchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desséché
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desséché in French?
desséché appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).