vernissé
French, adjective
vernissé is spelled V-E-R-N-I-S-S-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vernissé is a French adjective meaning “glazed (pottery)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of vernisser. Without its accent, vernisse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est recouvert de vernis, de glaçure”.
What does vernissé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
glazed (pottery)
- 2
glossy
verb
- 1
past participle of vernisser
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
first-person singular imperfect subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est recouvert de vernis, de glaçure.
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 vernissé
- vernissée feminine
- vernissés masculine plural
- vernissées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vernissé in French?
vernissé appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).