détaler
French, verb/de.ta.le/
détaler is spelled D-É-T-A-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détaler is a French verb meaning “to make oneself scarce, to scamper (off or away), to make off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se retirer d’un endroit promptement, fuir, s’enfuir”.
What does détaler mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto make oneself scarce, to scamper (off or away), to make off
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ôter, resserrer la marchandise qu’on avait étalée. 2. Se retirer d’un endroit promptement, fuir, s’enfuir.
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 détaler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- détalant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- détalé participle past
- détale first-person indicative present
- détales indicative present second-person
- détalons first-person indicative plural
- détalez indicative plural present
- détalent indicative plural present
- détalais first-person imperfect indicative
- détalait imperfect indicative singular
- détalions first-person imperfect indicative
- détaliez imperfect indicative plural
- détalaient imperfect indicative plural
- détalai first-person historic indicative
- détalas historic indicative past
- détala historic indicative past
- détalâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détaler?
- /de.ta.le/
- \de.ta.le\
- [detale]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to détaler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is détaler in French?
détaler appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).