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tortillé

French, verb

tortillé is spelled T-O-R-T-I-L-L-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 86,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tortillé is a French verb meaning “past participle of tortiller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tortille is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does tortillé mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of tortiller

verb

as tortille
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 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. Tordu, replié sur soi-même. 2. Enveloppé de quelque chose qui a été entortillé.

noun: 1. Allée étroite et tortueuse d'un parc ou d'un sous-bois.

noun: 1. Francisation de l'espagnol d'Amérique tortilla.

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 tortillé

  • tortillée feminine
  • tortillés masculine plural
  • tortillées feminine plural
  • tortilles plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is tortillé in French?

tortillé appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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