déplumé
French, adjective
déplumé is spelled D-É-P-L-U-M-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déplumé is a French adjective meaning “plucked (de-feathered)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of déplumer. With an accent, déplume is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a perdu ses plumes, en parlant d'un oiseau”.
What does déplumé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
plucked (de-feathered)
verb
- 1
past participle of déplumer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a perdu ses plumes, en parlant d'un oiseau. 2. Chauve, qui a perdu ses cheveux. 3. Dépouillé.
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 déplumé
- déplumée feminine
- déplumés masculine plural
- déplumées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is déplumé in French?
déplumé appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).