souillé
French, adjective
souillé is spelled S-O-U-I-L-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,719th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souillé is a French adjective meaning “dirty, sullied, fouled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of souiller. Without its accent, souille is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a été souillé”.
What does souillé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dirty, sullied, fouled
verb
- 1
past participle of souiller
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. Cuvette bourbeuse où se vautre ponctuellement le gibier pour se débarrasser de ses parasites. 2. Enfoncement dans un sol sableux ou vaseux. 3. Enfoncement, sorte de lit que forme, dans la vase ou dans le sable mou, un navire échoué momentanément. 4. Cuvette bourbeuse où se vautre l’éléphant de mer ^([2]).
adjective: 1. Qui a été souillé.
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 souillé
- souillée feminine
- souillés masculine plural
- souillées feminine plural
- souilles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to souillé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souillé in French?
souillé appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).