dressé
French, adjective
dressé is spelled D-R-E-S-S-É (6 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,979th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dressé is a French adjective meaning “standing, erect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of dresser. Without its accent, dresse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est debout, érigé”.
What does dressé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
standing, erect
- 2
erect
verb
- 1
past participle of dresser
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
noun: 1. Rédaction d'un devis. 2. Morceau de cuir intercalé entre deux semelles, et destiné à redresser la chaussure. 3. Drèche. 4. Manière de placer le fer pour faire du velours.
adjective: 1. Qui est debout, érigé.
noun: 1. Adresse de courriel, adresse internet.
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 dressé
- dressée feminine
- dressés masculine plural
- dressées feminine plural
- dresses plural
- @dresses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dressé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dressé in French?
dressé appears 6.8 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).