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fêlé

French, noun

fêlé is spelled F-Ê-L-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fêlé is a French masculine noun meaning “crackpot, madman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of fêler. With an accent, fêle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “(figuré) Homme qui est fêlé”.

What does fêlé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    cracked

  2. 2

    colloquialcrazy, crackpot

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialmasculinecrackpot, madman

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of fêler

noun

as fêle
  1. 1

    archaicfeminineblowpipe

verb

as fêle
  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

noun: 1. Canne, ou espèce de sarbacane ou tuyau creux en fer, au moyen duquel on prélève une portion de pâte de verre du creuset afin de la mettre en forme en la soufflant.

adjective: 1. Qui a une ou plusieurs fêlures. 2. Qualifie une poitrine délicate et menacée. 3. Qualifie une voix dont le timbre est altéré. 4. Qualifie le cerveau d'une personne un peu folle ; fou.

noun: 1. (figuré) Homme qui est fêlé.

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 fêlé

  • fêlée feminine
  • fêlés masculine plural
  • fêlées feminine plural
  • fêles plural
  • felle alternative
  • fesle

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

English words that translate to fêlé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fêlé in French?

fêlé appears about once in every 4 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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