privilégié
French, noun
privilégié is spelled P-R-I-V-I-L-É-G-I-É (10 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Privilégié is a French masculine noun meaning “person who is privileged” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of privilégier. With an accent, privilégie is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui jouit d’un privilège”.
What does privilégié mean in English?
adjective
- 1
privileged
noun
- 1
masculineperson who is privileged
verb
- 1
past participle of privilégier
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 a un privilège, qui jouit d’un privilège. 2. Qui a reçu de la nature quelque don particulier. 3. Qui s’attribue ou à qui l’on accorde certaines libertés, certaines richesses, certaines prérogatives dans la société. 4. Qualifie une créance et le créancier qui a le droit d’être payé préférablement aux autres.
noun: 1. Celui qui jouit d’un privilège.
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 privilégié
- privilégiée feminine
- privilégiés masculine plural
- privilégiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to privilégié
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is privilégié in French?
privilégié appears 7.6 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).