dérouter
French, verb/de.ʁu.te/
dérouter is spelled D-É-R-O-U-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dérouter is a French verb meaning “to reroute, derail (cause to change path)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Égarer quelqu’un de sa route”.
What does dérouter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reroute, derail (cause to change path)
- 2
to set back
- 3
to disconcert
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Égarer quelqu’un de sa route. 2. Empêcher quelque chose d’aboutir. 3. Déconcerter. 4. Modifier l'itinéraire prévu, en parlant d'un moyen de transport.
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 dérouter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déroutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dérouté participle past
- déroute first-person indicative present
- déroutes indicative present second-person
- déroutons first-person indicative plural
- déroutez indicative plural present
- déroutent indicative plural present
- déroutais first-person imperfect indicative
- déroutait imperfect indicative singular
- déroutions first-person imperfect indicative
- déroutiez imperfect indicative plural
- déroutaient imperfect indicative plural
- déroutai first-person historic indicative
- déroutas historic indicative past
- dérouta historic indicative past
- déroutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dérouter?
- /de.ʁu.te/
- \de.ʁu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dérouter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dérouter in French?
dérouter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).