dégainer
French, verb/de.ɡɛ.ne/
dégainer is spelled D-É-G-A-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégainer is a French verb meaning “to unsheath” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer un instrument perçant ou tranchant de sa gaine, de son fourreau”.
What does dégainer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unsheath
dégainer l'épée
- 2
to draw (a weapon)
dégainer un pistolet
- 3
to strip (a cable)
couteaux à dégainer
- 4
to unveil
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer un instrument perçant ou tranchant de sa gaine, de son fourreau. 2. Mettre l’épée à la main pour se battre. 3. Sortir une arme de poing de l’étui où elle est serrée. 4. Sortir de son chapeau, proposer comme solution originale.
verb: 1. Orthographe ancienne de dégainer.
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 dégainer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégainant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégainé participle past
- dégaine first-person indicative present
- dégaines indicative present second-person
- dégainons first-person indicative plural
- dégainez indicative plural present
- dégainent indicative plural present
- dégainais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégainait imperfect indicative singular
- dégainions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégainiez imperfect indicative plural
- dégainaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégainai first-person historic indicative
- dégainas historic indicative past
- dégaina historic indicative past
- dégainâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégainer?
- /de.ɡɛ.ne/
- /de.ɡe.ne/
- \de.ɡe.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dégainer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dégainer in French?
dégainer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).