picoté
French, verb
picoté is spelled P-I-C-O-T-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 88,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Picoté is a French verb meaning “past participle of picoter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, picote is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does picoté mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of picoter
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. Piquer légèrement, de façon répétée. 2. Qui est marqué de petites taches, en parlant de la peau. 3. Qui est marqué, qui a un motif, de picots.
noun: 1. Maladie due à la transmission accidentelle du cowpox virus du bovin vers l'Homme.
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 picoté
- picotée feminine
- picotés masculine plural
- picotées feminine plural
- picotes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is picoté in French?
picoté appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).