méticuleux
French, adjective/me.ti.ky.lø/
méticuleux is spelled M-É-T-I-C-U-L-E-U-X (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Méticuleux is a French adjective meaning “meticulous (characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est soigneux à l’excès, qui a le goût des moindres détails et qui en est préoccupé”.
What does méticuleux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
meticulous (characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est soigneux à l’excès, qui a le goût des moindres détails et qui en est préoccupé. 2. Qui est fait avec minutie, avec le souci du détail, de la précision.
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 méticuleux
- méticuleuse feminine
- méticuleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méticuleux?
- /me.ti.ky.lø/
- \me.ti.ky.lø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to méticuleux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is méticuleux in French?
méticuleux 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).