empalé
French, verb
empalé is spelled E-M-P-A-L-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empalé is a French verb meaning “past participle of empaler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, empale is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does empalé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of empaler
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. Personne qui a été empalée.
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 empalé
- empalée feminine
- empalés masculine plural
- empalées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is empalé in French?
empalé appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).