embarrassé
French, adjective
embarrassé is spelled E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-É (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embarrassé is a French adjective meaning “embarrassed, perplexed, confused” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of embarrasser. Without its accent, embarrasse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arrêté ou gêné par un obstacle”.
What does embarrassé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
embarrassed, perplexed, confused
verb
- 1
past participle of embarrasser
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. Arrêté ou gêné par un obstacle. 2. Troublé ; mis en peine.
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 embarrassé
- embarrassée feminine
- embarrassés masculine plural
- embarrassées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to embarrassé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embarrassé in French?
embarrassé appears 1.3 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).