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accentué

French, adjective

accentué is a French adjective meaning “pronounced, marked, accented” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of accentuer. Without its accent, accentue is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a un accent ou des accents”.

What does accentué mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    pronounced, marked, accented

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of accentuer

verb

as accentue
  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. Qui a un accent ou des accents.

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 accentué

  • accentuée feminine
  • accentués masculine plural
  • accentuées feminine plural

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

English words that translate to accentué

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is accentué in French?

accentué appears 2.4 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).