défourailler
\de.fu.ʁa.je\
The verdict
“défourailler” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sortir de prison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defourailler · défourailler · French
défourailler · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défourailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fu.ʁa.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
défourailler is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fu.ʁa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for défourailler, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is défourailler, spelled D-É-F-O-U-R-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sortir de prison.
- 2Dégainer, sortir ou utiliser une arme à feu, ôter du fourreau une arme blanche.
- 3Produire quelque chose.
- 4Avoir des relations sexuelles.
- 5À la forme participe passé, il désigne l’état d’une personne ayant consommé une quantité notoire de stupéfiants. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how défourailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma largue part pour Versailles, Lirlonfa malurette, Aux pieds d’Sa Majesté, Lirlonfa maluré ; Elle lui fonce un babillard ; Pour m’faire défourailler, Lirlonfa maluré. Pour m’faire défourailler, […].
Maujeux. — Vous ne croyez pas que je vais vous laisser défourailler en ville ? Hermann. — On ne défouraillera pas, mon colonel. Tout se passera à l’amiable.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.