dégeler
French, verb/deʒ.le/
dégeler is spelled D-É-G-E-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégeler is a French verb meaning “to defrost; to thaw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire qu’une chose qui était gelée cesse de l’être”.
What does dégeler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defrost; to thaw
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire qu’une chose qui était gelée cesse de l’être. 2. Faire cesser la réserve, la froideur que quelqu’un avait d’abord gardée. 3. Cesser d’être gelé. 4. Ne pas rester gelé.
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 dégeler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégelant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégelé participle past
- dégèle first-person indicative present
- dégèles indicative present second-person
- dégelons first-person indicative plural
- dégelez indicative plural present
- dégèlent indicative plural present
- dégelais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégelait imperfect indicative singular
- dégelions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégeliez imperfect indicative plural
- dégelaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégelai first-person historic indicative
- dégelas historic indicative past
- dégela historic indicative past
- dégelâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégeler?
- /deʒ.le/
- /dɛʒ.le/
- \deʒ.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dégeler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dégeler in French?
dégeler appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).