dégoter
French, verb/de.ɡɔ.te/
dégoter is spelled D-É-G-O-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégoter is a French verb meaning “to dig up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Surpasser, supplanter”.
What does dégoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto dig up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Surpasser, supplanter. 2. Trouver quelqu’un ou quelque chose, en particulier quand c’est inespéré. 3. Tenter de trouver quelque chose. 4. Faire tomber une cible.
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 dégoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégoté participle past
- dégote first-person indicative present
- dégotes indicative present second-person
- dégotons first-person indicative plural
- dégotez indicative plural present
- dégotent indicative plural present
- dégotais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégotait imperfect indicative singular
- dégotions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégotiez imperfect indicative plural
- dégotaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégotai first-person historic indicative
- dégotas historic indicative past
- dégota historic indicative past
- dégotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégoter?
- /de.ɡɔ.te/
- \de.ɡɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dégoter in French?
dégoter appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).