imbriqué
French, adjective
imbriqué is spelled I-M-B-R-I-Q-U-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 96,749th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imbriqué is a French adjective meaning “interlinked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of imbriquer. Without its accent, imbrique is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposé de façon à se chevaucher ou être les uns dans les autres”.
What does imbriqué mean in English?
adjective
- 1
interlinked
verb
- 1
past participle of imbriquer
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. Disposé de façon à se chevaucher ou être les uns dans les autres.
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 imbriqué
- imbriquée feminine
- imbriqués masculine plural
- imbriquées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to imbriqué
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imbriqué in French?
imbriqué appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).