désappointer
French, verb/de.za.pwɛ̃.te/
désappointer is spelled D-É-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désappointer is a French verb meaning “to disappoint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tromper quelqu’un dans ses espérances, ne pas répondre à son attente”.
What does désappointer mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto dismiss
- 2
to disappoint
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tromper quelqu’un dans ses espérances, ne pas répondre à son attente. 2. Destituer quelqu'un de sa charge, en particulier des militaires appointés. 3. Couper les points de fil ou de ficelle qui tiennent en état les plis d'une pièce d'étoffe ou d'un ballot.
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 désappointer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désappointant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désappointé participle past
- désappointe first-person indicative present
- désappointes indicative present second-person
- désappointons first-person indicative plural
- désappointez indicative plural present
- désappointent indicative plural present
- désappointais first-person imperfect indicative
- désappointait imperfect indicative singular
- désappointions first-person imperfect indicative
- désappointiez imperfect indicative plural
- désappointaient imperfect indicative plural
- désappointai first-person historic indicative
- désappointas historic indicative past
- désappointa historic indicative past
- désappointâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désappointer?
- /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/
- \de.za.pwɛ̃.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 désappointer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désappointer in French?
désappointer appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).