habillé
French, adjective
habillé is spelled H-A-B-I-L-L-É (7 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,979th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habillé is a French adjective meaning “smart; formal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of habiller. Without its accent, habille is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui porte un habit, un vêtement, qui n’est pas nu”.
What does habillé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
smart; formal
verb
- 1
past participle of habiller
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. Qui porte un habit, un vêtement, qui n’est pas nu. 2. Soigné, adapté à une situation demandant une tenue élégante. 3. Se dit d'un être humain portant un vêtement
noun: 1. Carte du jeu de tarot également appelée honneur et représentant un personnage dans les quatre couleurs.
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 habillé
- habillée feminine
- habillés masculine plural
- habillées feminine plural
- ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\ singular masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to habillé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habillé in French?
habillé appears 6.8 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).