déboussolé
French, adjective
déboussolé is spelled D-É-B-O-U-S-S-O-L-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 52,567th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déboussolé is a French adjective meaning “disoriented” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of déboussoler. With an accent, déboussole is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désorienté, perdu”.
What does déboussolé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
disoriented
verb
- 1
past participle of déboussoler
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 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. Désorienté, perdu.
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 déboussolé
- déboussolée feminine
- déboussolés masculine plural
- déboussolées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to déboussolé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déboussolé in French?
déboussolé appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).