déferrer
French, verb/de.fɛ.ʁe/
déferrer is spelled D-É-F-E-R-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déferrer is a French verb meaning “to remove iron from” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir une chose du fer qui y a été appliqué”.
What does déferrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove iron from
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir une chose du fer qui y a été appliqué. 2. Ôter les fers (d'un animal). 3. Rendre muet ; déconcerter ; interdire. 4. détacher de l'hameçon.
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 déferrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déferrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déferré participle past
- déferre first-person indicative present
- déferres indicative present second-person
- déferrons first-person indicative plural
- déferrez indicative plural present
- déferrent indicative plural present
- déferrais first-person imperfect indicative
- déferrait imperfect indicative singular
- déferrions first-person imperfect indicative
- déferriez imperfect indicative plural
- déferraient imperfect indicative plural
- déferrai first-person historic indicative
- déferras historic indicative past
- déferra historic indicative past
- déferrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déferrer?
- /de.fɛ.ʁe/
- /de.fe.ʁe/
- \de.fe.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is déferrer in French?
déferrer appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).