libellé
French, noun
libellé is spelled L-I-B-E-L-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Libellé is a French masculine noun meaning “wording” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of libeller. Without its accent, libelle is a different word: “libel”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rédaction d’un acte, d’un écrit, en particulier dans des formes légales ou requises”.
What does libellé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewording
verb
- 1
past participle of libeller
noun
- 1
masculinelibel
- 2
masculinelibelle
verb
- 1
first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/ present 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
noun: 1. Placet, petit écrit. 2. Acte signifié par écrit. 3. Écrit, ordinairement court, injurieux, diffamatoire ou calomnieux.
noun: 1. Rédaction d’un acte, d’un écrit, en particulier dans des formes légales ou requises.
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 libellé
- libelles plural
- libellés plural
- libellée feminine
- libellées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to libellé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is libellé in French?
libellé appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).