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rangé

French, adjective

rangé is spelled R-A-N-G-É (5 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rangé is a French adjective meaning “tidy, neat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of ranger. Without its accent, range is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mis en rang”.

What does rangé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    tidy, neat

    une chambre rangée

  2. 2

    orderly, quiet, uneventful

    petite vie bien rangée, mener une vie bien rangée

  3. 3

    pitched

    bataille rangée

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of ranger

verb

as range
  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

adjective: 1. Mis en rang. 2. Ordonné. 3. Qui fait preuve de tempérance.

noun: 1. Rang de pavés de même hauteur. 2. Alignement de pavés de biais.

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 rangé

  • rangée feminine
  • rangés masculine plural
  • rangées feminine plural
  • ranges plural

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

How common is rangé in French?

rangé appears 7.8 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).

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