surgelé
French, noun
surgelé is spelled S-U-R-G-E-L-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surgelé is a French masculine noun meaning “frozen food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of surgeler. With an accent, surgèle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Abréviation de plat surgelé, nourriture surgelée ou encore aliment surgelé”.
What does surgelé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
deep-frozen
noun
- 1
masculinefrozen food
les surgelés
verb
- 1
past participle of surgeler
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. Abréviation de plat surgelé, nourriture surgelée ou encore aliment surgelé.
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 surgelé
- surgelée feminine
- surgelés masculine plural
- surgelées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is surgelé in French?
surgelé appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).