dérouiller
French, verb/de.ʁu.je/
dérouiller is spelled D-É-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 88,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dérouiller is a French verb meaning “to derust, to remove rust from” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Débarrasser de la rouille”.
What does dérouiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to derust, to remove rust from
- 2
to get back into, dust off
- 3
to lose rust
- 4
to come back
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Débarrasser de la rouille. 2. Remettre une personne ou une de ses facultés physiques ou intellectuelles en état de fonctionner normalement. 3. Donner une correction, une raclée (une dérouillée). 4. Perdre sa rouille.
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 dérouiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dérouillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dérouillé participle past
- dérouille first-person indicative present
- dérouilles indicative present second-person
- dérouillons first-person indicative plural
- dérouillez indicative plural present
- dérouillent indicative plural present
- dérouillais first-person imperfect indicative
- dérouillait imperfect indicative singular
- dérouillions first-person imperfect indicative
- dérouilliez imperfect indicative plural
- dérouillaient imperfect indicative plural
- dérouillai first-person historic indicative
- dérouillas historic indicative past
- dérouilla historic indicative past
- dérouillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dérouiller?
- /de.ʁu.je/
- \de.ʁu.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dérouiller in French?
dérouiller appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).