délier
French, verb/de.lje/
délier is spelled D-É-L-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,936th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délier is a French verb meaning “to untie, loosen, release” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégager de ce qui lie”.
What does délier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to untie, loosen, release
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégager de ce qui lie. 2. Dénouer. 3. Dégager d’une obligation, d’un serment, etc. 4. Dégager des fautes, des péchés.
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 délier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déliant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- délié participle past
- délie first-person indicative present
- délies indicative present second-person
- délions first-person indicative plural
- déliez indicative plural present
- délient indicative plural present
- déliais first-person imperfect indicative
- déliait imperfect indicative singular
- déliions first-person imperfect indicative
- déliiez imperfect indicative plural
- déliaient imperfect indicative plural
- déliai first-person historic indicative
- délias historic indicative past
- délia historic indicative past
- déliâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce délier?
- /de.lje/
- \de.lje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to délier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is délier in French?
délier appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).