déboucler
French, verb/de.bu.kle/
déboucler is spelled D-É-B-O-U-C-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déboucler is a French verb meaning “to unbuckle (a belt)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégager de ce qui boucle”.
What does déboucler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unbuckle (a belt)
- 2
to undo curls
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégager de ce qui boucle. 2. Dégarnir de ses boucles. 3. Fermer en raison des congés.
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 déboucler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- débouclant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- débouclé participle past
- déboucle first-person indicative present
- déboucles indicative present second-person
- débouclons first-person indicative plural
- débouclez indicative plural present
- débouclent indicative plural present
- débouclais first-person imperfect indicative
- débouclait imperfect indicative singular
- débouclions first-person imperfect indicative
- déboucliez imperfect indicative plural
- débouclaient imperfect indicative plural
- débouclai first-person historic indicative
- débouclas historic indicative past
- déboucla historic indicative past
- débouclâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déboucler?
- /de.bu.kle/
- \de.bu.kle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déboucler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déboucler in French?
déboucler appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).