déprise
French, noun
déprise is spelled D-É-P-R-I-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déprise is a French feminine noun meaning “abandonment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of dépris. With an accent, déprisé is a different word: “past participle of dépriser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le fait de se déprendre, de se détacher de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, de renoncer à des activités”.
What does déprise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineabandonment
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of dépris
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of dépris
verb
- 1
past participle of dépriser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Le fait de se déprendre, de se détacher de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, de renoncer à des activités.
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 déprise
- déprises plural
- déprisée feminine
- déprisés masculine plural
- déprisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is déprise in French?
déprise appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).