gonflé
French, adjective
gonflé is spelled G-O-N-F-L-É (6 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gonflé is a French adjective meaning “brazen, nervy (who has got some nerve), cheeky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of gonfler. Without its accent, gonfle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rempli d’air ou de gaz ou de toute autre matière”.
What does gonflé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialbrazen, nervy (who has got some nerve), cheeky
verb
- 1
past participle of gonfler
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. Rempli d’air ou de gaz ou de toute autre matière. 2. (Quelqu’un) qui exagère, dépasse les limites, a du culot ; audacieux, culotté.
adjective: 1. Rassasié. 2. Qui a le cœur serré. 3. Enflé, bouffi, gonflé.
noun: 1. Boursouflure sur un fil de métal au sortir de la filière. 2. Matière muqueuse qui apparaît dans les pourrissoirs sur les chiffons en cours de fermentation. 3. Petite ampoule, vésicule. 4. Amoncellement de neige dû au vent.
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 gonflé
- gonflée feminine
- gonflés masculine plural
- gonflées feminine plural
- gonfles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gonflé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gonflé in French?
gonflé appears 3.9 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).