dingue
French, noun
dingue is spelled D-I-N-G-U-E (6 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dingue is a French feminine noun meaning “madman, maniac” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of dinguer. With an accent, dingué is a different word: “past participle of dinguer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne folle, fada, aliéné mental”.
What does dingue mean in English?
adjective
- 1
slangmad, crazy, nuts
Ce truc me rend dingue!
- 2
colloquialincredible, unbelievable
noun
- 1
femininemasculineslangmadman, maniac
La célébrité me faisait mener une existence de dingue.
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
suffix
- 1
colloquialalternative form of -ingue
verb
- 1
past participle of dinguer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Fou, fada. 2. Bizarre, extraordinaire, saugrenu ; il peut être mélioratif en ce sens. 3. Enjoué au plus haut point ; fanatique. 4. Extraordinaire, de fou au sens de hors du commun.
noun: 1. Personne folle, fada, aliéné mental. 2. Variante de dengue, avec métanalyse et le sens réinterprété de « maladie qui rend fou ».
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 dingue
- dingues plural
- dinguée feminine
- dingués masculine plural
- dinguées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dingue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dingue in French?
dingue appears 22 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).