signifié
French, noun
signifié is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-É (8 letters) and appears 54 times per million words in written French, the 1,564th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Signifié is a French masculine noun meaning “signified” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of signifier. Without its accent, signifie is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce que représente un signifiant, le concept. On note généralement le signifiant en italique et le signifié…”.
What does signifié mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesignified
verb
- 1
past participle of signifier
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 est relatif au sens d’un signe.
noun: 1. Ce que représente un signifiant, le concept. On note généralement le signifiant en italique et le signifié entre guillemets.
verb: 1. Participe passé du verbe signifier.
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 signifié
- signifiés plural
- signifiée feminine
- signifiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to signifié
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is signifié in French?
signifié appears 54 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).