déboucher
French, verb/de.bu.ʃe/
déboucher is spelled D-É-B-O-U-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déboucher is a French verb meaning “to unblock; to clear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Débarrasser de ce qui bouche, de ce qui obstrue”.
What does déboucher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unblock; to clear
- 2
to uncork (a bottle)
- 3
to lead (somewhere), to come out (somewhere)
La carte ne montre pas où le passage débouche.
- 4
to lead (to), to culminate (in)
La guerre débouche sur l'indépendance.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Débarrasser de ce qui bouche, de ce qui obstrue. 2. Débarrasser de son bouchon.
verb: 1. Sortir d’un endroit resserré pour passer dans un lieu plus ouvert. 2. Sortir par l’endroit où il a son embouchure, en parlant d'un fleuve, d'une rivière, d'un canal, voire d'une route 3. Aboutir.
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 déboucher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- débouchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- débouché participle past
- débouche first-person indicative present
- débouches indicative present second-person
- débouchons first-person indicative plural
- débouchez indicative plural present
- débouchent indicative plural present
- débouchais first-person imperfect indicative
- débouchait imperfect indicative singular
- débouchions first-person imperfect indicative
- débouchiez imperfect indicative plural
- débouchaient imperfect indicative plural
- débouchai first-person historic indicative
- débouchas historic indicative past
- déboucha historic indicative past
- débouchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déboucher?
- /de.bu.ʃe/
- \de.bu.ʃe\
- [de.bu.ʃe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déboucher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déboucher in French?
déboucher 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).