guède
French, noun
guède is a French feminine noun meaning “dyer's woad (plant Isatis tinctoria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of guéder. With an accent, guédé is a different word: “past participle of guéder”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante herbacée (Isatis tinctoria) dont était extrait le pastel”.
What does guède mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedyer's woad (plant Isatis tinctoria)
adjective
- 1
of a colour resembling the bluish tint extracted from woad; pastel blue
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of guéder
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante herbacée (Isatis tinctoria) dont était extrait le pastel.
adjective: 1. De la couleur bleu pastel extraite de la plante du même nom. – #56739A
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 guède
- guèdes plural
- guédée feminine
- guédés masculine plural
- guédées feminine plural
- wouède
- guesde
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to guède
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guède in French?
guède appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).