lampassé
French, adjective
lampassé is spelled L-A-M-P-A-S-S-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lampassé is a French adjective meaning “langued” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, lampasse is a different word: “first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of lamper”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualifie la langue des lions, léopards et des quadrupèdes lorsqu’elle sort de leur gueule et que l’émail en…”.
What does lampassé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
langued
verb
- 1
first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of lamper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de lampas.
adjective: 1. Qualifie la langue des lions, léopards et des quadrupèdes lorsqu’elle sort de leur gueule et que l’émail en est différent de celui du corps.
adjective: 1. Tapissé de lampas.
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 lampassé
- lampassée feminine
- lampassés masculine plural
- lampassées feminine plural
- lampasses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lampassé in French?
lampassé appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).