gelé
French, adjective
gelé is spelled G-E-L-É (4 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gelé is a French adjective meaning “frozen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of geler. With an accent, gèle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Transformé en glace, en parlant d’eau”.
What does gelé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
frozen
- 2
Quebecstoned
verb
- 1
past participle of geler
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. Transformé en glace, en parlant d’eau. 2. Bloqué, inactif, qui n’évolue pas. 3. Être sous l’effet de la drogue, stone, défoncé. 4. Fou.
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 gelé
- gelée feminine
- gelés masculine plural
- gelées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gelé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gelé in French?
gelé appears 2.6 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).