stipendié
French, noun
stipendié is spelled S-T-I-P-E-N-D-I-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stipendié is a French masculine noun meaning “hireling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of stipendier. Without its accent, stipendie is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui est à la solde et agit pour le compte d'un autre ou d'une organisation”.
What does stipendié mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehireling
verb
- 1
past participle of stipendier
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 reçoit une solde pour agir.
noun: 1. Celui qui est à la solde et agit pour le compte d'un autre ou d'une organisation.
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 stipendié
- stipendiés plural
- stipendiée feminine
- stipendiées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is stipendié in French?
stipendié appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).