démystifier
French, verb/de.mis.ti.fje/
démystifier is spelled D-É-M-Y-S-T-I-F-I-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démystifier is a French verb meaning “to demystify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détromper quelqu'un dont on abuse de la crédulité ou de la naïveté, inverse de mystifier”.
What does démystifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to demystify
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détromper quelqu'un dont on abuse de la crédulité ou de la naïveté, inverse de mystifier. 2. Priver quelqu'un ou quelque chose de son aspect mythique, mystérieux, en dénoncer les idées reçues pour montrer leur fausseté, paronyme de démythifier.
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 démystifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démystifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démystifié participle past
- démystifie first-person indicative present
- démystifies indicative present second-person
- démystifions first-person indicative plural
- démystifiez indicative plural present
- démystifient indicative plural present
- démystifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- démystifiait imperfect indicative singular
- démystifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- démystifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- démystifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- démystifiai first-person historic indicative
- démystifias historic indicative past
- démystifia historic indicative past
- démystifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démystifier?
- /de.mis.ti.fje/
- \de.mis.ti.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démystifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démystifier in French?
démystifier appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).