fendillé
French, adjective
fendillé is spelled F-E-N-D-I-L-L-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 181,983rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fendillé is a French adjective meaning “cracked, crazed (surface)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of fendiller. Without its accent, fendille is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui présente des petites fentes”.
What does fendillé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cracked, crazed (surface)
verb
- 1
past participle of fendiller
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 présente des petites fentes.
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 fendillé
- fendillée feminine
- fendillés masculine plural
- fendillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fendillé in French?
fendillé appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).