démêler
French, verb/de.mɛ.le/
démêler is spelled D-É-M-Ê-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,653rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démêler is a French verb meaning “to unmix (separate two or more things that are mixed together), to untangle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séparer une chose d’autres choses avec lesquelles elle est mêlée”.
What does démêler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unmix (separate two or more things that are mixed together), to untangle
- 2
to clarify; to decipher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Séparer une chose d’autres choses avec lesquelles elle est mêlée. 2. Séparer divers éléments d'une même chose, d'un même ensemble. 3. Débrouiller, éclaircir. 4. Discerner.
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 démêler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démêlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démêlé participle past
- démêle first-person indicative present
- démêles indicative present second-person
- démêlons first-person indicative plural
- démêlez indicative plural present
- démêlent indicative plural present
- démêlais first-person imperfect indicative
- démêlait imperfect indicative singular
- démêlions first-person imperfect indicative
- démêliez imperfect indicative plural
- démêlaient imperfect indicative plural
- démêlai first-person historic indicative
- démêlas historic indicative past
- démêla historic indicative past
- démêlâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démêler?
- /de.mɛ.le/
- /de.me.le/
- \de.me.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démêler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démêler in French?
démêler appears 1.3 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).