enroué
French, adjective
enroué is spelled E-N-R-O-U-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enroué is a French adjective meaning “hoarse, husky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of enrouer. Without its accent, enroue is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rauque, moins nette et moins libre qu’à l’ordinaire, en parlant de la voix”.
What does enroué mean in English?
adjective
- 1
hoarse, husky
verb
- 1
past participle of enrouer
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. Rauque, moins nette et moins libre qu’à l’ordinaire, en parlant de la voix.
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 enroué
- enrouée feminine
- enroués masculine plural
- enrouées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to enroué
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enroué in French?
enroué appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).