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poilé

French, verb

poilé is a French verb meaning “past participle of poiler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, poile is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does poilé mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of poiler

verb

as poile
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 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. Autre orthographe de poêle. 2. Drap funéraire noir, servant à recouvrir un cercueil, les cordons en sont tenus par des personnes.

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 poilé

  • poilée feminine
  • poilés masculine plural
  • poilées feminine plural
  • poiles plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is poilé in French?

poilé 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).