dégoupiller
French, verb/de.ɡu.pi.je/
dégoupiller is spelled D-É-G-O-U-P-I-L-L-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégoupiller is a French verb meaning “to unpin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever la goupille de sécurité d’un objet”.
What does dégoupiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unpin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever la goupille de sécurité d’un objet. 2. S’énerver de manière soudaine, éclater de colère. (à l’image d’une grenade qui, dégoupillée, explose) 3. Libérer un frein, un blocage, etc.
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 dégoupiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégoupillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégoupillé participle past
- dégoupille first-person indicative present
- dégoupilles indicative present second-person
- dégoupillons first-person indicative plural
- dégoupillez indicative plural present
- dégoupillent indicative plural present
- dégoupillais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégoupillait imperfect indicative singular
- dégoupillions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégoupilliez imperfect indicative plural
- dégoupillaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégoupillai first-person historic indicative
- dégoupillas historic indicative past
- dégoupilla historic indicative past
- dégoupillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégoupiller?
- /de.ɡu.pi.je/
- \de.ɡu.pi.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dégoupiller in French?
dégoupiller appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).