dégoutter
French, verb/de.ɡu.te/
dégoutter is spelled D-É-G-O-U-T-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégoutter is a French verb meaning “to drip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couler goutte à goutte”.
What does dégoutter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drip
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couler goutte à goutte. 2. Faire tomber goutte à goutte de l’eau, de la sueur, 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 dégoutter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégouttant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégoutté participle past
- dégoutte first-person indicative present
- dégouttes indicative present second-person
- dégouttons first-person indicative plural
- dégouttez indicative plural present
- dégouttent indicative plural present
- dégouttais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégouttait imperfect indicative singular
- dégouttions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégouttiez imperfect indicative plural
- dégouttaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégouttai first-person historic indicative
- dégouttas historic indicative past
- dégoutta historic indicative past
- dégouttâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégoutter?
- /de.ɡu.te/
- \de.ɡu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dégoutter in French?
dégoutter appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).