étouffé
French, verb
étouffé is spelled É-T-O-U-F-F-É (7 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étouffé is a French verb meaning “past participle of étouffer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, étouffe is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does étouffé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of étouffer
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 étouffé.
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 étouffé
- étouffée feminine
- étouffés masculine plural
- étouffées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is étouffé in French?
étouffé appears 3.0 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).