embossé
French, adjective
embossé is spelled E-M-B-O-S-S-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written French, the 229,021st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embossé is a French adjective meaning “embossed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of embosser. Without its accent, embosse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est agrémenté d'un motif en relief”.
What does embossé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
embossed
verb
- 1
past participle of embosser
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 agrémenté d'un motif en relief.
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 embossé
- embossée feminine
- embossés masculine plural
- embossées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is embossé in French?
embossé appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).