dépuceler
French, verb/de.py.s(ə).le/
dépuceler is spelled D-É-P-U-C-E-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dépuceler is a French verb meaning “to deflower, to pop someone's cherry (to take someone's virginity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire perdre sa virginité à un garçon ou à une fille”.
What does dépuceler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deflower, to pop someone's cherry (to take someone's virginity)
- 2
to disillusion, to make someone aware of something, to make someone lose their innocence
Near-synonyms: désillusionner, désabuser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire perdre sa virginité à un garçon ou à une fille. 2. Sortir d’une ignorance, faire prendre conscience d’une chose importante. 3. Ouvrir, débouchonner ou décapsuler, en parlant d’une bouteille.
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 dépuceler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dépucelant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dépucelé participle past
- dépucelle first-person indicative present
- dépucèle first-person indicative present
- dépucelles indicative present second-person
- dépucèles indicative present second-person
- dépucelons first-person indicative plural
- dépucelez indicative plural present
- dépucellent indicative plural present
- dépucèlent indicative plural present
- dépucelais first-person imperfect indicative
- dépucelait imperfect indicative singular
- dépucelions first-person imperfect indicative
- dépuceliez imperfect indicative plural
- dépucelaient imperfect indicative plural
- dépucelai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dépuceler?
- /de.py.s(ə).le/
- \de.py.s(ə.)le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dépuceler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dépuceler in French?
dépuceler appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).