détartrer
French, verb/de.taʁ.tʁe/
détartrer is spelled D-É-T-A-R-T-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détartrer is a French verb meaning “to descale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever le tartre de (quelque chose : un appareil, les dents…)”.
What does détartrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to descale
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever le tartre de (quelque chose : un appareil, les dents…).
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 détartrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- détartrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- détartré participle past
- détartre first-person indicative present
- détartres indicative present second-person
- détartrons first-person indicative plural
- détartrez indicative plural present
- détartrent indicative plural present
- détartrais first-person imperfect indicative
- détartrait imperfect indicative singular
- détartrions first-person imperfect indicative
- détartriez imperfect indicative plural
- détartraient imperfect indicative plural
- détartrai first-person historic indicative
- détartras historic indicative past
- détartra historic indicative past
- détartrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détartrer?
- /de.taʁ.tʁe/
- \de.taʁ.tʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is détartrer in French?
détartrer appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).