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enrhumé

French, adjective

enrhumé is spelled E-N-R-H-U-M-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,843rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enrhumé is a French adjective meaning “Having a cold (illness)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of enrhumer. Without its accent, enrhume is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Malade d’un rhume”.

What does enrhumé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a cold (illness)

    Je suis enrhumé. -- I have a cold.

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of enrhumer

verb

as enrhume
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 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. Malade d’un rhume. 2. Évoquant la congestion, l'oppression, le malaise d'une personne enrhumée.

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 enrhumé

  • enrhumée feminine
  • enrhumés masculine plural
  • enrhumées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is enrhumé in French?

enrhumé appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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