tâtonné
French, verb
tâtonné is spelled T-Â-T-O-N-N-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tâtonné is a French verb meaning “past participle of tâtonner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tâtonne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does tâtonné mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of tâtonner
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 l’objet de différents essais.
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 tâtonné
- tâtonnée feminine
- tâtonnés masculine plural
- tâtonnées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tâtonné in French?
tâtonné appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).