décaler
French, verb/de.ka.le/
décaler is spelled D-É-C-A-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décaler is a French verb meaning “to unload (a ship)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever la cale à ; changer l’équilibre, l’aplomb”.
What does décaler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unload (a ship)
- 2
to bring forward, put back (a meeting etc.)
- 3
to stagger (a shift)
- 4
move aside
Décale-toi que je puisse faire passer l'armoire.
- 5
to set up
- 6
slangmove, get to, come (here), go, get moving
On/ça décale ?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever la cale à ; changer l’équilibre, l’aplomb. 2. Avancer ou reculer une série d’objets ou de faits. 3. Annuler le calage d’une presse. 4. Partir, sortir (par exemple pour une intervention, dans le cas des services d’urgence).
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 décaler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- décalant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- décalé participle past
- décale first-person indicative present
- décales indicative present second-person
- décalons first-person indicative plural
- décalez indicative plural present
- décalent indicative plural present
- décalais first-person imperfect indicative
- décalait imperfect indicative singular
- décalions first-person imperfect indicative
- décaliez imperfect indicative plural
- décalaient imperfect indicative plural
- décalai first-person historic indicative
- décalas historic indicative past
- décala historic indicative past
- décalâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décaler?
- /de.ka.le/
- \de.ka.le\
- [nouchi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is décaler in French?
décaler appears 1.4 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).