débarbouiller
French, verb/de.baʁ.bu.je/
débarbouiller is spelled D-É-B-A-R-B-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Débarbouiller is a French verb meaning “to wash (somebody's face)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nettoyer en particulier le visage”.
What does débarbouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wash (somebody's face)
- 2
to wash one's face
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Nettoyer en particulier le visage. 2. Se nettoyer (le visage). 3. Tirer d’embarras, débrouiller.
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 débarbouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- débarbouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- débarbouillé participle past
- débarbouille first-person indicative present
- débarbouilles indicative present second-person
- débarbouillons first-person indicative plural
- débarbouillez indicative plural present
- débarbouillent indicative plural present
- débarbouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- débarbouillait imperfect indicative singular
- débarbouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- débarbouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- débarbouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- débarbouillai first-person historic indicative
- débarbouillas historic indicative past
- débarbouilla historic indicative past
- débarbouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce débarbouiller?
- /de.baʁ.bu.je/
- \de.baʁ.bu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is débarbouiller in French?
débarbouiller appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).