déployer
French, verb/de.plwa.je/
déployer is spelled D-É-P-L-O-Y-E-R (8 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written French, the 11,366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déployer is a French verb meaning “to spread out, to unfold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étendre, développer ce qui était ployé”.
What does déployer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spread out, to unfold
- 2
to deploy (troops, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Étendre, développer ce qui était ployé. 2. Occuper un plus grand espace de terrain. 3. Manifester avec activité, avec éclat. 4. Installer sur plusieurs machines en modifiant les données d'une seule.
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 déployer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déployant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déployé participle past
- déploie first-person indicative present
- déploies indicative present second-person
- déployons first-person indicative plural
- déployez indicative plural present
- déploient indicative plural present
- déployais first-person imperfect indicative
- déployait imperfect indicative singular
- déployions first-person imperfect indicative
- déployiez imperfect indicative plural
- déployaient imperfect indicative plural
- déployai first-person historic indicative
- déployas historic indicative past
- déploya historic indicative past
- déployâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déployer?
- /de.plwa.je/
- \de.plwa.je\
- [de.plwa.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déployer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déployer in French?
déployer appears 4.9 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).