versé
French, adjective
versé is spelled V-E-R-S-É (5 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Versé is a French adjective meaning “versed, knowledgeable (in something), conversant (with something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of verser. Without its accent, verse is a different word: “pouring”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est expérimenté”.
What does versé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
versed, knowledgeable (in something), conversant (with something)
verb
- 1
past participle of verser
adjective
- 1
only used in sinus verse (“versed sine, versine”)
noun
- 1
femininepouring
- 2
femininelodging (bending of the stems of crops which reduces yield)
- 3
feminineobsoletebasket used to transport around 35 pounds of charcoal
- 4
feminineOne who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship; a switch.
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. (Utilisé uniquement dans à verse, pleuvoir à verse) Action de verser, état de ce qui est versé. 2. Corbeille d'une contenance d'environ 35 livres, autrefois utilisée pour le transport du charbon de bois. 3. Accident touchant certaines cultures, principalement les céréales, qui se trouvent couchées au sol entraînant le plus souvent une baisse importante du rendement.
adjective: 1. Qualifie le sinus pour définir une fonction trigonométrique égale à l’unité moins le cosinus : textrm versin(θ)=1- cos (θ),!.
adjective: 1. Qui est expérimenté. 2. Se dit d’une pièce, d’un meuble représenté à l’envers (tête en bas). Synonyme de renversé. 3. Nombreux, tous ici.
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 versé
- verses plural
- versée feminine
- versés masculine plural
- versées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to versé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is versé in French?
versé appears 8.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).