dessoûler
French, verb
dessoûler is spelled D-E-S-S-O-Û-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dessoûler is a French verb meaning “Pre-1990 spelling of dessouler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, dessouler is a different word: “to sober up”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Débarrasser des malaises et des troubles de l’ivresse”.
What does dessoûler mean in English?
verb
- 1
Pre-1990 spelling of dessouler.
verb
- 1
to sober up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Débarrasser des malaises et des troubles de l’ivresse. 2. Cesser d’être ivre.
verb: 1. Débarrasser des malaises et des troubles de l’ivresse. 2. Cesser d’être ivre.
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 dessoûler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dessoulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dessoulé participle past
- dessoule first-person indicative present
- dessoules indicative present second-person
- dessoulons first-person indicative plural
- dessoulez indicative plural present
- dessoulent indicative plural present
- dessoulais first-person imperfect indicative
- dessoulait imperfect indicative singular
- dessoulions first-person imperfect indicative
- dessouliez imperfect indicative plural
- dessoulaient imperfect indicative plural
- dessoulai first-person historic indicative
- dessoulas historic indicative past
- dessoula historic indicative past
- dessoulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is dessoûler in French?
dessoûler appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).