forcené
French, noun
forcené is spelled F-O-R-C-E-N-É (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,681st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forcené is a French masculine noun meaning “maniac” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of forcener. With an accent, forcène is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne forcenée”.
What does forcené mean in English?
adjective
- 1
crazed, frenzied, deranged
noun
- 1
masculinemaniac
travailler comme un forcené
verb
- 1
past participle of forcener
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 emporté par la colère, la fureur. 2. Qualifie un cheval emporté. À rapprocher d’acculé, cabré, effaré, effarouché, effrayé et furieux.
noun: 1. Personne forcenée.
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 forcené
- forcenée feminine
- forcenés masculine plural
- forcenées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to forcené
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is forcené in French?
forcené appears 1.1 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).