fieffé
French, adjective/fjɛ.fe/
fieffé is spelled F-I-E-F-F-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fieffé is a French adjective meaning “enfeoffed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of fieffer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui tient en fief ; qui est donné en fief”.
What does fieffé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
enfeoffed
- 2
arrant, out-and-out, blatant
verb
- 1
past participle of fieffer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui tient en fief ; qui est donné en fief. 2. Qui porte au suprême degré un défaut ou un vice.
noun: 1. En Normandie, vente qui ne diffère de la vente ordinaire que parce que le prix, au lieu d’être un capital, est une rente perpétuelle ou foncière.
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 fieffé
- fieffée feminine
- fieffés masculine plural
- fieffées feminine plural
- fieffes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fieffé?
- /fjɛ.fe/
- /fje.fe/
- \fjɛ.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fieffé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fieffé in French?
fieffé appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).