dessiller
French, verb/de.si.je/
dessiller is spelled D-E-S-S-I-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dessiller is a French verb meaning “to open someone's eyes (to make them see or understand something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amener quelqu’un à comprendre ce qu’il ignorait ou voulait ignorer”.
What does dessiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to open someone's eyes (to make them see or understand something)
dessiller les yeux de quelqu'un
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 comprendre ce qu’il ignorait ou voulait ignorer. 2. S’ouvrir à la réalité, accepter de la voir telle qu’elle est.
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 dessiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dessillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dessillé participle past
- dessille first-person indicative present
- dessilles indicative present second-person
- dessillons first-person indicative plural
- dessillez indicative plural present
- dessillent indicative plural present
- dessillais first-person imperfect indicative
- dessillait imperfect indicative singular
- dessillions first-person imperfect indicative
- dessilliez imperfect indicative plural
- dessillaient imperfect indicative plural
- dessillai first-person historic indicative
- dessillas historic indicative past
- dessilla historic indicative past
- dessillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dessiller?
- /de.si.je/
- \de.si.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dessiller in French?
dessiller appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).