débrider

\de.bʁi.de\

/\de.bʁi.de\/ verb

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The verdict

“débrider” is uncommon French (frequency #90,651 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,651
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débarrasser de la bride.

Corpus desk

Index FR-debrider · débrider · French

débrider · rank #90,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,651
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH décelable

Nearest frequency peer: décelable (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « débrider »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débrider » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for débrider
PropertyValue
Headworddébrider
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.bʁi.de\
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,651
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « débrider » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).débridertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « décelable » (#90,652), « déchirez » (#90,653), « durex » (#90,648). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « débrider » est au #90,651. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

débrider is uncommon French at frequency #90,651 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bʁi.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for débrider, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is débrider, spelled D-É-B-R-I-D-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Débarrasser de la bride.
  2. 2
    Ôter le dispositif qui bride la vitesse d'un moteur.
  3. 3
    Se donner un temps de repos, cesser un mouvement.
  4. 4
    Dégager ce qui est serré.
  5. 5
    Couper les fils avec lesquels on avait attaché les membres d'une volaille, pour la faire cuire.
  6. 6
    Dégager une charge du câble qui a servi à la hisser.
  7. 7
    Couper les brides ou filaments d'une suture, qui empêchent l’écoulement du pus.
  8. 8
    Contourner les protections d’un système pour supprimer les restrictions d’utilisation mises en place par le constructeur.
  9. 9
    Agir sans retenue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how débrider appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il ne faut pas encore débrider ce cheval.
  2. — Si je ne la débridais pas, elle casserait tout. Fanchon, débarrassée de la bride et même de la selle que son maître lui enleva lestement, alla flairer et saluer, d’un hennissement amical, sa paisible hôtesse, la jument du métayer.

This word in other languages

unbridle(English)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "débrider"?
"débrider" is spelled D-É-B-R-I-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.bʁi.de\.
What does "débrider" mean?
As a verb, "débrider" means: Débarrasser de la bride.
How do you pronounce "débrider"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "débrider" is \de.bʁi.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "débrider", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

déchirez#90,653duration#90,647drapiers#90,643démarres#90,662

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list