dévoué
French, adjective
dévoué is spelled D-É-V-O-U-É (6 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 17,903rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévoué is a French adjective meaning “devoted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of dévouer. With an accent, dévoue is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est disposé à tout faire pour être utile ou agréable à quelqu’un”.
What does dévoué mean in English?
adjective
- 1
devoted
verb
- 1
past participle of dévouer
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 disposé à tout faire pour être utile ou agréable à quelqu’un. 2. Voué, exposé.
noun: 1. Personne qui fait acte de dévouement.
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 dévoué
- dévouée feminine
- dévoués masculine plural
- dévouées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dévoué
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dévoué in French?
dévoué 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).