déguerpir
French, verb/de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ/
déguerpir is spelled D-É-G-U-E-R-P-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déguerpir is a French verb meaning “to flee, to run off; to scram, skedaddle, scarper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Abandonner la possession (d'un bien, d'une maison, etc.)”.
What does déguerpir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flee, to run off; to scram, skedaddle, scarper
- 2
to bug
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Abandonner la possession (d'un bien, d'une maison, etc.). 2. Sortir, se retirer hâtivement et malgré soi ; fuir. 3. Expulser, faire sortir quelqu’un d’un logement.
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 déguerpir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déguerpissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déguerpi participle past
- déguerpis first-person indicative present
- déguerpit indicative present singular
- déguerpissons first-person indicative plural
- déguerpissez indicative plural present
- déguerpissent indicative plural present
- déguerpissais first-person imperfect indicative
- déguerpissait imperfect indicative singular
- déguerpissions first-person imperfect indicative
- déguerpissiez imperfect indicative plural
- déguerpissaient imperfect indicative plural
- déguerpîmes first-person historic indicative
- déguerpîtes historic indicative past
- déguerpirent historic indicative past
- déguerpirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déguerpir?
- /de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ/
- \de.ɡɛʁ.piʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déguerpir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déguerpir in French?
déguerpir 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).