fumé
French, adjective
fumé is spelled F-U-M-É (4 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fumé is a French adjective meaning “smoked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of fumer. Without its accent, fume is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Goût fumé”.
What does fumé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
smoked
verb
- 1
past participle of fumer
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. Goût fumé 2. Qui a été soumis à la fumée pour assurer une meilleure conservation. 3. Qualifie un verre teinté pour protéger les yeux d'une lumière excessive. 4. Ruiné.
noun: 1. Dessin tracé sur une plaque de verre revêtue d’un enduit à la fumée. 2. Empreinte d’un poinçon à graver noirci à la fumée que l’on prend sur une carte pour s’assurer si la gravure est nette.
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 fumé
- fumée feminine
- fumés masculine plural
- fumées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fumé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fumé in French?
fumé appears 7.9 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).