handicapé
French, noun
handicapé is spelled H-A-N-D-I-C-A-P-É (9 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written French, the 10,846th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Handicapé is a French masculine noun meaning “handicapped person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of handicaper. Without its accent, handicape is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne en situation de handicap”.
What does handicapé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
disabled, handicapped
noun
- 1
masculinehandicapped person
verb
- 1
past participle of handicaper
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. Atteint d’un handicap.
noun: 1. Personne en situation de handicap.
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 handicapé
- handicapée feminine
- handicapés masculine plural
- handicapées feminine plural
- ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.ka.pe\ singular masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to handicapé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is handicapé in French?
handicapé appears 5.2 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).