dévergondé
French, adjective
dévergondé is spelled D-É-V-E-R-G-O-N-D-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévergondé is a French adjective meaning “shameless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of dévergonder. With an accent, dévergonde is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui mène une vie de dévergondage”.
What does dévergondé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
shameless
- 2
debauched, depraved
verb
- 1
past participle of dévergonder
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui mène une vie de dévergondage. 2. Qui montre du dévergondage.
noun: 1. Homme qui s’adonne au dévergondage.
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 dévergondé
- dévergondée feminine
- dévergondés masculine plural
- dévergondées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dévergondé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dévergondé in French?
dévergondé appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).