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dégonflé

French, adjective

dégonflé is spelled D-É-G-O-N-F-L-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégonflé is a French adjective meaning “deflated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of dégonfler. With an accent, dégonfle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui n’est plus gonflé”.

What does dégonflé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    deflated

    Near-synonym: crevé

  2. 2

    colloquialcowardly, scared

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of dégonfler

verb

as dégonfle
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui n’est plus gonflé. 2. Dont le volume s’est amoindri. 3. Peureux, lâche.

noun: 1. Personne lâche.

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 dégonflé

  • dégonflée feminine
  • dégonflés masculine plural
  • dégonflées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to dégonflé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dégonflé in French?

dégonflé appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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