résumé
French, noun
résumé is spelled R-É-S-U-M-É (6 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written French, the 2,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Résumé is a French masculine noun meaning “summary, résumé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of résumer. With an accent, résume is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui résume un texte, un discours, un propos, etc”.
What does résumé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesummary, résumé
- 2
masculineabstract (of an academic paper)
verb
- 1
past participle of résumer
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
noun: 1. Ce qui résume un texte, un discours, un propos, etc. 2. Toutes sortes de précis ou abrégés.
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 résumé
- résumés plural
- résumée feminine
- résumées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to résumé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is résumé in French?
résumé appears 34 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).