encaissé
French, adjective
encaissé is spelled E-N-C-A-I-S-S-É (8 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encaissé is a French adjective meaning “steep-sided” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of encaisser. Without its accent, encaisse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit d’un fleuve, d’une rivière dont les bords sont escarpés et nettement plus élevés que la surface de…”.
What does encaissé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
steep-sided
verb
- 1
past participle of encaisser
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. Se dit d’un fleuve, d’une rivière dont les bords sont escarpés et nettement plus élevés que la surface de l’eau, ou d’un chemin dont les bords sont nettement plus élevés que le niveau du cheminement.
noun: 1. Somme des valeurs qui sont dans la caisse ou dans le portefeuille d’une maison de banque, d’une administration.
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 encaissé
- encaissée feminine
- encaissés masculine plural
- encaissées feminine plural
- encaisses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is encaissé in French?
encaissé appears 1.9 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).