déboussoler
French, verb/de.bu.sɔ.le/
déboussoler is spelled D-É-B-O-U-S-S-O-L-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déboussoler is a French verb meaning “to disorient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire perdre la boussole, désorienter”.
What does déboussoler mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto disorient
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire perdre la boussole, désorienter.
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 déboussoler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déboussolant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déboussolé participle past
- déboussole first-person indicative present
- déboussoles indicative present second-person
- déboussolons first-person indicative plural
- déboussolez indicative plural present
- déboussolent indicative plural present
- déboussolais first-person imperfect indicative
- déboussolait imperfect indicative singular
- déboussolions first-person imperfect indicative
- déboussoliez imperfect indicative plural
- déboussolaient imperfect indicative plural
- déboussolai first-person historic indicative
- déboussolas historic indicative past
- déboussola historic indicative past
- déboussolâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déboussoler?
- /de.bu.sɔ.le/
- \de.bu.sɔ.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is déboussoler in French?
déboussoler appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).