délabrer
\de.lɑ.bʁe\
The verdict
“délabrer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en mauvais état, soit par un long usage, soit par vétusté, soit par manque de soin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delabrer · délabrer · French
délabrer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délabrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.lɑ.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délabrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délabrer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.lɑ.bʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre en mauvais état, soit par un long usage, soit par vétusté, soit par manque de soin.".
délabrer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is délabrer, spelled D-É-L-A-B-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en mauvais état, soit par un long usage, soit par vétusté, soit par manque de soin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délabrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Pont-du-Château même, la plupart des maisons réparées et bien entretenues sont celles où logent ces ouvriers ; beaucoup d'autres se délabrent, tombent en ruine.
La pièce lança deux obus avant que la carcasse de l’immeuble se disloquât, et chacun d’eux parcourut le Wetterhorn de bout en bout, le délabrant complètement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.