dépecer
French, verb/dep.se/
dépecer is spelled D-É-P-E-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dépecer is a French verb meaning “to chop up, dismember” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever la peau, mettre en pièces, couper en quartiers”.
What does dépecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chop up, dismember
- 2
to take apart
- 3
to divide up (put into parts)
- 4
to pick apart (examine in great detail)
- 5
to tear apart (criticise severely)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever la peau, mettre en pièces, couper en quartiers.
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 dépecer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dépeçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dépecé participle past
- dépèce first-person indicative present
- dépèces indicative present second-person
- dépeçons first-person indicative plural
- dépecez indicative plural present
- dépècent indicative plural present
- dépeçais first-person imperfect indicative
- dépeçait imperfect indicative singular
- dépecions first-person imperfect indicative
- dépeciez imperfect indicative plural
- dépeçaient imperfect indicative plural
- dépeçai first-person historic indicative
- dépeças historic indicative past
- dépeça historic indicative past
- dépeçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dépecer?
- /dep.se/
- /dɛp.se/
- \de.pə.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dépecer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dépecer in French?
dépecer 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).