étalé
French, verb
étalé is spelled É-T-A-L-É (5 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étalé is a French verb meaning “past participle of étaler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, étale is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does étalé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of étaler
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. Qui est stationnaire. 2. Qualifie la mer qui ne monte ni ne descend à la fin du flot ou du jusant. 3. Qualifie un fleuve en crue qui a fini de grossir sans avoir encore commencé à baisser. 4. Qualifie un navire qui n’avance ni ne recule.
noun: 1. Moment où la mer est stationnaire, sans mouvement important de marée.
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 étalé
- étalée feminine
- étalés masculine plural
- étalées feminine plural
- étales plural masculine feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is étalé in French?
étalé appears 2.7 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).