souligné
French, verb
souligné is spelled S-O-U-L-I-G-N-É (8 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,746th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souligné is a French verb meaning “past participle of souligner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, souligne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does souligné mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of souligner
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. Tiret bas.
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 souligné
- soulignée feminine
- soulignés masculine plural
- soulignées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to souligné
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souligné in French?
souligné appears 15 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).