enfermé
French, verb
enfermé is spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-É (7 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written French, the 8,672nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfermé is a French verb meaning “past participle of enfermer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, enferme is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does enfermé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of enfermer
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. Odeur des choses qui sentent mauvais parce qu’il y a longtemps qu’elles n’ont été à l’air, ou que l’air n’y a pénétré.
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 enfermé
- enfermée feminine
- enfermés masculine plural
- enfermées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to enfermé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfermé in French?
enfermé appears 7.1 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).