dépouillement
French, noun/de.puj.mɑ̃/
dépouillement is spelled D-É-P-O-U-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T (13 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,241st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dépouillement is a French masculine noun meaning “stripping; skinning (removal of skin from an animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de dépouiller ou état de ce qui est dépouillé”.
What does dépouillement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestripping; skinning (removal of skin from an animal)
- 2
masculineloss; shedding (of leaves from a tree)
- 3
masculinestripping; reduction; cutting; snipping; whittling down (removal, at least in part, e.g. of text); act of getting rid
- 4
masculinerobbing, stealing; pinching
- 5
masculinedestitution (state of being without)
- 6
masculineshedding, disowning (e.g. of personal belongings)
- 7
masculinecount; vote count; counting of votes
- 8
masculinedata reduction
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de dépouiller ou état de ce qui est dépouillé. 2. Renoncement au monde. 3. Examen minutieux d’un registre, d’un dossier, d’un compte, d’un inventaire, etc., et dont on fait le sommaire, l’extrait. 4. Action de compter les voix, les suffrages, d’un scrutin.
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 dépouillement
- dépouillements plural
- dépouillage
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dépouillement?
- /de.puj.mɑ̃/
- \de.puj.mɑ̃\
- [de.puj.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dépouillement in French?
dépouillement appears 2.2 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).