perforé
French, adjective
perforé is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,297th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perforé is a French adjective meaning “perforated, pierced, punched” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of perforer. Without its accent, perfore is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est perforé, percé”.
What does perforé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
perforated, pierced, punched
verb
- 1
past participle of perforer
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. Qui est perforé, percé. 2. …
noun: 1. Un muscle dont le tendon est perforé par celui d’un autre muscle.
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 perforé
- perforée feminine
- perforés masculine plural
- perforées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is perforé in French?
perforé 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).