palpé
French, verb
palpé is spelled P-A-L-P-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 74,663rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palpé is a French verb meaning “past participle of palper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, palpe is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does palpé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of palper
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
noun: 1. Appendice articulé et mobile, situé, en nombre pair, sur les parties latérales de la bouche des insectes, soit sur les mâchoires, soit sur la lèvre inférieure et qui leur sert à tenir les aliments pendant qu’ils les mâchent.
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 palpé
- palpée feminine
- palpés masculine plural
- palpées feminine plural
- palpes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is palpé in French?
palpé appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).