désenchanter
French, verb/de.zɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te/
désenchanter is spelled D-É-S-E-N-C-H-A-N-T-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désenchanter is a French verb meaning “to disenchant (to remove an enchantment from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire cesser d’être sous l’emprise d’un enchantement”.
What does désenchanter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disenchant (to remove an enchantment from)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire cesser d’être sous l’emprise d’un enchantement. 2. Guérir d’une passion, d’un engouement. 3. Faire perdre les illusions sur quelqu’un. 4. Priver quelqu’un des goûts, des sentiments, des illusions qui charmaient sa vie.
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 désenchanter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désenchantant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désenchanté participle past
- désenchante first-person indicative present
- désenchantes indicative present second-person
- désenchantons first-person indicative plural
- désenchantez indicative plural present
- désenchantent indicative plural present
- désenchantais first-person imperfect indicative
- désenchantait imperfect indicative singular
- désenchantions first-person imperfect indicative
- désenchantiez imperfect indicative plural
- désenchantaient imperfect indicative plural
- désenchantai first-person historic indicative
- désenchantas historic indicative past
- désenchanta historic indicative past
- désenchantâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désenchanter?
- /de.zɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te/
- \de.zɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.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 désenchanter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désenchanter in French?
désenchanter appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).