dérouler
French, verb/de.ʁu.le/
dérouler is spelled D-É-R-O-U-L-E-R (8 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written French, the 11,928th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dérouler is a French verb meaning “to unroll” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étendre ce qui était roulé et le mettre de son long”.
What does dérouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unroll
- 2
to break
- 3
to unravel, to unfold
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Étendre ce qui était roulé et le mettre de son long. 2. Se montrer successivement soit aux yeux, soit à l’esprit, en parlant des différentes parties d’un tout. 3. Avoir lieu. 4. Rouler de haut en bas, débarouler.
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 dérouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déroulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déroulé participle past
- déroule first-person indicative present
- déroules indicative present second-person
- déroulons first-person indicative plural
- déroulez indicative plural present
- déroulent indicative plural present
- déroulais first-person imperfect indicative
- déroulait imperfect indicative singular
- déroulions first-person imperfect indicative
- dérouliez imperfect indicative plural
- déroulaient imperfect indicative plural
- déroulai first-person historic indicative
- déroulas historic indicative past
- déroula historic indicative past
- déroulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dérouler?
- /de.ʁu.le/
- \de.ʁu.le\
- [de.ʁu.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 dérouler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dérouler in French?
dérouler appears 4.6 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).