décombres
French, noun
décombres is spelled D-É-C-O-M-B-R-E-S (9 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,266th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décombres is a French masculine noun meaning “rubble, ruins (of a building)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of décombrer. With an accent, décombrés is a different word: “masculine plural of décombré”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amas de matériaux inutiles qui restent sur le terrain après la démolition d’un bâtiment”.
What does décombres mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerubble, ruins (of a building)
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of décombrer
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of décombré
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Amas de matériaux inutiles qui restent sur le terrain après la démolition d’un bâtiment.
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.
English words that translate to décombres
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décombres in French?
décombres appears 1.9 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).