endimanché
French, adjective
endimanché is spelled E-N-D-I-M-A-N-C-H-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Endimanché is a French adjective meaning “in one's Sunday best, endimanched” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of endimancher. Without its accent, endimanche is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Habillé de beaux habits pour le dimanche, d'une façon qui détonne avec l'ordinaire”.
What does endimanché mean in English?
adjective
- 1
in one's Sunday best, endimanched
- 2
awkward, out of one's comfort zone
verb
- 1
past participle of endimancher
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. Habillé de beaux habits pour le dimanche, d'une façon qui détonne avec l'ordinaire.
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 endimanché
- endimanchée feminine
- endimanchés masculine plural
- endimanchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is endimanché in French?
endimanché appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).