déshabillé
French, noun
déshabillé is spelled D-É-S-H-A-B-I-L-L-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déshabillé is a French masculine noun meaning “négligée (type of dressing gown)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of déshabiller. With an accent, déshabille is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vêtement d’intérieur de femme”.
What does déshabillé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
undressed, in a state of undress
noun
- 1
masculinenégligée (type of dressing gown)
verb
- 1
past participle of déshabiller
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dépouillé de tout ou partie de ses vêtements, dévêtu, dénudé. 2. Relatif à une toilette légère. 3. Dépouillé de tous ses accessoires, dénudé. 4. Sans défense, désarmé.
noun: 1. Vêtement d’intérieur de femme.
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 déshabillé
- déshabillée feminine
- déshabillés masculine plural
- déshabillées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to déshabillé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déshabillé in French?
déshabillé appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).