protégée
French, verb/pʁɔ.te.ʒe/
protégée is spelled P-R-O-T-É-G-É-E (8 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written French, the 7,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protégée is a French feminine verb meaning “feminine singular of protégé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does protégée mean in English?
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of protégé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme protégée.
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 protégée
- protégées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce protégée?
- /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/
- \pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to protégée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is protégée in French?
protégée appears 8.5 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).