déstabiliser
French, verb/des.ta.bi.li.ze/
déstabiliser is spelled D-É-S-T-A-B-I-L-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déstabiliser is a French verb meaning “to destabilise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre instable”.
What does déstabiliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to destabilise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre instable. 2. Faire perdre sa contenance, perturber (une personne).
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 déstabiliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déstabilisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déstabilisé participle past
- déstabilise first-person indicative present
- déstabilises indicative present second-person
- déstabilisons first-person indicative plural
- déstabilisez indicative plural present
- déstabilisent indicative plural present
- déstabilisais first-person imperfect indicative
- déstabilisait imperfect indicative singular
- déstabilisions first-person imperfect indicative
- déstabilisiez imperfect indicative plural
- déstabilisaient imperfect indicative plural
- déstabilisai first-person historic indicative
- déstabilisas historic indicative past
- déstabilisa historic indicative past
- déstabilisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déstabiliser?
- /des.ta.bi.li.ze/
- /dɛs.ta.bi.li.ze/
- \de.sta.bi.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déstabiliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déstabiliser in French?
déstabiliser appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).