déshonorer
French, verb/de.zɔ.nɔ.ʁe/
déshonorer is spelled D-É-S-H-O-N-O-R-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déshonorer is a French verb meaning “to dishonor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire perdre l’honneur”.
What does déshonorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dishonor
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire perdre l’honneur. 2. Commettre une action, mener une vie qui fait déshonneur à sa famille, à son pays, etc. 3. Dégénérer de la vertu de ses ancêtres : faire déshonneur à leur mémoire. 4. Abuser sexuellement d’une femme, d'une fille.
verb: 1. Ancienne orthographe de déshonorer.
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 déshonorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déshonorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déshonoré participle past
- déshonore first-person indicative present
- déshonores indicative present second-person
- déshonorons first-person indicative plural
- déshonorez indicative plural present
- déshonorent indicative plural present
- déshonorais first-person imperfect indicative
- déshonorait imperfect indicative singular
- déshonorions first-person imperfect indicative
- déshonoriez imperfect indicative plural
- déshonoraient imperfect indicative plural
- déshonorai first-person historic indicative
- déshonoras historic indicative past
- déshonora historic indicative past
- déshonorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déshonorer?
- /de.zɔ.nɔ.ʁe/
- \de.zɔ.nɔ.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déshonorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déshonorer in French?
déshonorer appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).