échevelé
French, adjective/e.ʃə.v(ə).le/
échevelé is spelled É-C-H-E-V-E-L-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échevelé is a French adjective meaning “tousled, dishevelled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of écheveler. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a les cheveux épars et en désordre”.
What does échevelé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tousled, dishevelled
- 2
frenzied
verb
- 1
past participle of écheveler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a les cheveux épars et en désordre. 2. Qui a l’aspect de cheveux en désordre. 3. Très excessif.
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 échevelé
- échevelée feminine
- échevelés masculine plural
- échevelées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échevelé?
- /e.ʃə.v(ə).le/
- \e.ʃə.vle\
- [e.ʃə.vle]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is échevelé in French?
échevelé appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).