galvaudé
French, adjective
galvaudé is spelled G-A-L-V-A-U-D-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 70,496th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Galvaudé is a French adjective meaning “overused, trite, hackneyed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of galvauder. Without its accent, galvaude is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does galvaudé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
overused, trite, hackneyed
verb
- 1
past participle of galvauder
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
noun: 1. Plat de poulet, de frites et de petits-pois le tout recouvert de sauce.
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 galvaudé
- galvaudée feminine
- galvaudés masculine plural
- galvaudées feminine plural
- galvaudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is galvaudé in French?
galvaudé appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).