démâter
French, verb/de.ma.te/
démâter is spelled D-É-M-Â-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démâter is a French verb meaning “to unmast; to dismast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir d’un ou de plusieurs mâts”.
What does démâter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unmast; to dismast
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir d’un ou de plusieurs mâts. 2. Rompre, abattre le mât, les mâts. 3. Se dit d’un bâtiment qui est démâté par la tempête.
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 démâter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démâtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démâté participle past
- démâte first-person indicative present
- démâtes indicative present second-person
- démâtons first-person indicative plural
- démâtez indicative plural present
- démâtent indicative plural present
- démâtais first-person imperfect indicative
- démâtait imperfect indicative singular
- démâtions first-person imperfect indicative
- démâtiez imperfect indicative plural
- démâtaient imperfect indicative plural
- démâtai first-person historic indicative
- démâtas historic indicative past
- démâta historic indicative past
- démâtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démâter?
- /de.ma.te/
- /de.mɑ.te/
- \de.mɑ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is démâter in French?
démâter appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).