délire
French, noun
délire is spelled D-É-L-I-R-E (6 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délire is a French masculine noun meaning “delirium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of délirer. With an accent, déliré is a different word: “past participle of délirer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Égarement de l’esprit momentané”.
What does délire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedelirium
- 2
informalmasculinecrazy stuff, absurdity, nonsense
L’Eglise, la sexualité et Satan : quel délire et quelle hypocrisie ! Yvon Quinou, Mediapart (28 February 2019)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of délirer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Égarement de l’esprit momentané. 2. Aberration pathologique de l’intelligence qui se manifeste par des idées fausses et systématiques de grandeur, de persécution, etc. 3. Agitation extrême, trouble qu’excitent dans l’âme les passions, les émotions violentes. 4. Idée, proposition stupide, insensée.
verb: 1. Lire une formule magique à l’envers pour annuler son effet.
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 délire
- délires plural
- délirée feminine
- délirés masculine plural
- délirées feminine plural
- avoir délu infinitive past
- en délisant gerund present
- en ayant délu gerund past
- délisant participle present
- délu participle past
- je délis indicative present
- tu délis indicative present
- il/elle/on délit indicative present
- nous délisons indicative present
- vous délisez indicative present
- ils/elles délisent indicative present
- j’ai délu indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as délu indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a délu indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to délire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is délire in French?
délire appears 14 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).