déplorer
French, verb/de.plɔ.ʁe/
déplorer is spelled D-É-P-L-O-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déplorer is a French verb meaning “to deplore, to rue, to lament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Juger quelque chose digne d’une grande pitié, d’une grande compassion”.
What does déplorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deplore, to rue, to lament
Je déplore la façon dont mes employés vous ont traité.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Juger quelque chose digne d’une grande pitié, d’une grande compassion. 2. Regretter beaucoup.
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 déplorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déplorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déploré participle past
- déplore first-person indicative present
- déplores indicative present second-person
- déplorons first-person indicative plural
- déplorez indicative plural present
- déplorent indicative plural present
- déplorais first-person imperfect indicative
- déplorait imperfect indicative singular
- déplorions first-person imperfect indicative
- déploriez imperfect indicative plural
- déploraient imperfect indicative plural
- déplorai first-person historic indicative
- déploras historic indicative past
- déplora historic indicative past
- déplorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déplorer?
- /de.plɔ.ʁe/
- \de.plɔ.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déplorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déplorer in French?
déplorer appears 2.1 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).