déguiser
French, verb/de.ɡi.ze/
déguiser is spelled D-É-G-U-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déguiser is a French verb meaning “to disguise (change someone's appearance to make him/her look different)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travestir une personne de telle sorte qu’il soit difficile de la reconnaître”.
What does déguiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disguise (change someone's appearance to make him/her look different)
- 2
to disguise (hide something by covering it up)
- 3
to disguise (oneself)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travestir une personne de telle sorte qu’il soit difficile de la reconnaître. 2. Cacher quelque chose sous des apparences trompeuses. 3. Changer pour tromper.
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 déguiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déguisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déguisé participle past
- déguise first-person indicative present
- déguises indicative present second-person
- déguisons first-person indicative plural
- déguisez indicative plural present
- déguisent indicative plural present
- déguisais first-person imperfect indicative
- déguisait imperfect indicative singular
- déguisions first-person imperfect indicative
- déguisiez imperfect indicative plural
- déguisaient imperfect indicative plural
- déguisai first-person historic indicative
- déguisas historic indicative past
- déguisa historic indicative past
- déguisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déguiser?
- /de.ɡi.ze/
- \de.ɡi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déguiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déguiser in French?
déguiser appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).