désillusionner
French, verb/de.zi.ly.zjɔ.ne/
désillusionner is spelled D-É-S-I-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-N-E-R (14 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désillusionner is a French verb meaning “to disillusion, disenchant, to burst someone's bubble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amener quelqu’un à perdre une illusion”.
What does désillusionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disillusion, disenchant, to burst someone's bubble
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Amener quelqu’un à perdre une illusion.
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 désillusionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désillusionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désillusionné participle past
- désillusionne first-person indicative present
- désillusionnes indicative present second-person
- désillusionnons first-person indicative plural
- désillusionnez indicative plural present
- désillusionnent indicative plural present
- désillusionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- désillusionnait imperfect indicative singular
- désillusionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- désillusionniez imperfect indicative plural
- désillusionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- désillusionnai first-person historic indicative
- désillusionnas historic indicative past
- désillusionna historic indicative past
- désillusionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désillusionner?
- /de.zi.ly.zjɔ.ne/
- \de.zi.ly.zjɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to désillusionner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désillusionner in French?
désillusionner appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).