gourmande
French, verb
gourmande is spelled G-O-U-R-M-A-N-D-E (9 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gourmande is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of gourmand. With an accent, gourmandé is a different word: “past participle of gourmander”.
What does gourmande mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of gourmand
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of gourmander
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme gourmande.
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 gourmande
- gourmandée feminine
- gourmandés masculine plural
- gourmandées feminine plural
- gourmandes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gourmande in French?
gourmande appears 1.6 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).