nommé
French, verb
nommé is spelled N-O-M-M-É (5 letters) and appears 48 times per million words in written French, the 1,739th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nommé is a French verb meaning “past participle of nommer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, nomme is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does nommé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of nommer
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. Sélectionné. 2. Désigné à un emploi, un poste, une distinction.
noun: 1. Personne en tant que porteuse d’un nom. Cette manière de parler implique l’idée que celui qu’on désigne ainsi est un individu sans notoriété, dont on ne connaît que le nom.
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 nommé
- nommée feminine
- nommés masculine plural
- nommées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nommé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nommé in French?
nommé appears 48 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).