What does “stylé” mean in French slang?

Admiration pour le garçon le plus stylé de classe

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A2 French listening practice · French from France · Picked for people who know a little

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stylé
French slang
Not “stylish” exactly — c’est trop stylé just means “that’s so cool / awesome.”

Stylé looks like “stylish,” but in everyday French it has drifted to a broad “cool / awesome.” C’est trop stylé means “that’s so cool,” the equivalent of c’est top or c’est génial — it can praise a thing, an event or a feat, not just someone’s outfit. Applied to a person, il est stylé still leans toward “he’s got style,” but the runaway slang use is the all-purpose “that’s awesome.”

It belongs to the registre familier and is heard constantly among young people, though plenty of adults use it too. In this clip the class crush is judged trop stylé and il a trop la classe — both ways to say “he’s effortlessly cool.” Keep trop as the intensifier here: trop stylé, trop la classe. A safe, current upgrade from the textbook cool.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this A2 French listening practice video?

88.3%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common French words
Most of the words in this video are common French words.

How common in written French

83%
Top 1,000
88.3%
Top 2,000
92.6%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken French

88.2%
Top 1,000
97.6%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in French.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than A2. Here is what they mean.

wop
1×
Not in top 5,000
(slang) guy
waouh
3×
Not in top 5,000
wow
stylé
1×
Not in top 5,000
stylish
aah
1×
Not in top 5,000
ah
dentiste
1×
Not in top 5,000People say this a lot
dentist
il a trop la classe
1×
He has too much class/style.

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · Lexique 3.83 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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