tronqué
French, adjective
tronqué is spelled T-R-O-N-Q-U-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tronqué is a French adjective meaning “truncated, shortened” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of tronquer. Without its accent, tronque is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coupé au niveau du tronc”.
What does tronqué mean in English?
adjective
- 1
truncated, shortened
verb
- 1
past participle of tronquer
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. Coupé au niveau du tronc. 2. Coupé entre la base et le sommet. 3. Se dit de certaines choses dont l’extrémité ou la partie supérieure manque même si elles ne l’avaient jamais eue. 4. Terminé brusquement à son extrémité, comme si on l’avait coupé transversalement.
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 tronqué
- tronquée feminine
- tronqués masculine plural
- tronquées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tronqué
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tronqué in French?
tronqué appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).